The two felines—one adult, one juvenile—appear to have been cared for by the sailors before the vessel sank in a hurricane in ...

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

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

Note the heavy wooden tripod that could be disassembled for transport. In 1540, Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado set off from what is now central Mexico and entered the United ...