Mastodawn

🌙 Good night, friends! 🌙

Dryden the bobcat here. 🐾 I’m settling in for a cozy catnap so I can be fully charged for a night of prowling, playing, and doing all my favorite bobcat things.

Thank you for caring about cats like me. Sleep tight, and I’ll see you under the moonlight. 💛✨

#TCWR #GFAS #turpentinecreek #goodnight #night #wildcats #bobcats #sanctuary

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ

Dec 17

Modern Cats Were Domesticated Only 2,000 Years Ago

"Ancient DNA reveals the origin and global spread of the domestic cat out of its ancestral home in Africa."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#cats #wildcats #evolution #domestication #AncientDNA #genomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/12/16/modern-cats-were-domesticated-only-2000-years-ago/

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦Dec 16

Modern Cats Were Domesticated Only 2,000 Years Ago

"Ancient DNA reveals the origin and global spread of the domestic cat out of its ancestral home in Africa."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#cats #wildcats #evolution #domestication #AncientDNA #genomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/12/16/modern-cats-were-domesticated-only-2000-years-ago/

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦Dec 16

Modern Cats Were Domesticated Only 2,000 Years Ago

"Ancient DNA reveals the origin and global spread of the domestic cat out of its ancestral home in Africa."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#cats #wildcats #evolution #domestication #AncientDNA #genomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/12/16/modern-cats-were-domesticated-only-2000-years-ago/

Archaeology News

Dec 5

5,500-year-old wildcat found in Glencurran Cave rewrites Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife history

A new archaeological and genetic study has furnished the earliest direct evidence that European wildcats once roamed prehistoric Ireland. Researchers have identified wildcat remains from Glencurran Cave in the Burren, County Clare, dating to roughly 3600 BCE...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/5500-year-old-wildcat-found-in-ireland/

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #wildcats #prehistory #zooarchaeology

Palm Oil Detectives Dec 2

#Endangered Andean 🇵🇪 Mountain #Cats 🐱🐈 are elusive #wildcats of #SouthAmerica. They are unique as they can purr continuously 🎶 They face #extinction from #deforestation. Help them to survive, be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-7iL?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Vivienne Dunstan Nov 16

Watching tonight’s episode of Countryfile, with Hamza Yassin following the release of Scottish wildcats in the Cairngorms. Meanwhile thinking of my first pet cat, who was a rescued half wildcat from Highland Perthshire. #Cats #Wildcats #Wildlife #Nature #Perthshire #Scotland