Pet on board

pet inside the home. The goal is that, if you yourself are absent or injured, emergency workers can tell that there are pets inside who nee...

Computer in your cat

idea of having microchips implanted in human beings so that each of us carries around identification (and other sensitive information) on a ...

Roaring and non-roaring

purr ), while the Panthera cats do roar (but can’t purr). Needless to say, your pet belongs to the Felis genus. Aside from the roar-purr div...

The in-between phase

Europe around 12 million years ago. This species was smaller than  Pseudaelurus though still larger than today’s house cat. Scientists ass...

Catcall

In days past, there were small whistlelike instruments that made a sound like a cat, and they were used at concerts, political gatherings an...

The infamous saber-tooths

house cats, but in some way the ferocious saber-tooth cats are among the ancestors of today’s pets (or, at any rate, of cats in general). T...

The carnivore ancestors

Presumably the dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago (give or take a year), and the age of the mammals began. The earliest mammals ...