In a discovery that pushes back the timeline of domestic cats in North America, archaeologists have uncovered the earliest ...

A new study published in American Antiquity revealed insights into the history of domestic cats in the Americas, including ...

The remains of two domestic cats found in the wreckage of a Spanish conquistador ship were likely the first of the pet to ...

Bones belonging to a cat and rat from the Emanuel Point II shipwreck off the coast of Florida. | Credit: John Bratten "It was interesting to think about the idea of the cat being a pet or one that ...

Located on St. George Street in downtown St. Augustine's historic district, the Colonial Quarter offers ... activities like the construction of a ship and musket drills. Previous visitors praised ...

The ship was part of a Spanish colonizing expedition led by the conquistador Tristán de Luna y Arellano, who was voyaging from Mexico under the Spanish crown. In September 1559, a hurricane in ...