Felix media outlet coverage
– May 2025, Mongabay: Tabby’s likely ancestor & Earth’s most widespread wildcat is an enigma
– April 2025, Science Online News: Did cult sacrifices in ancient Egypt give rise to the cat?
– October 2024, Horizon – The EU Research and Innovation Magazine: Tracing the journey from Egyptian cat mummies to modern house pets.
– July 2023, Springer Nature Research Community – Ecology&Evolution: Cats love fish, don’t they?
– June 2023, Project Repository Journal: The feline enigma: exploring the origins, dispersal and evolution of domestic cats
– May 2023, Eoswetenschap article: Archaeological cat remains bring the history of the domestic cat to life, an interview with Bea De Cupere (for Dutch readers)
– April 2022, Archaeo-café podcast: Episode 2-34 – Palaeofelinology: an interview with Claudio Ottoni
– January 2021, Uniroma2 website: A history of Cat-Human relationship: 2mln granted by ERC to the Felix project
Media outlet coverage (Nat Eco Evo 2017 publication)
– Science Online News: Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world
– National Geographic: Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows
– The Atlantic: How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World
– BBC: How cats conquered the ancient world
– Washington Post: Long before they conquered the Internet, cats took over the world
– Repubblica: Le origini del gatto domestico? “Si è fatto adottare già nella preistoria, lo conferma il Dna”
– EL Pais: Tu gato desciende del gato salvaje africano
Other media coverage
– Science News: China’s most mysterious wildcat may not be its own species
– National Geographic “House cat ancestors’ remains found in Polish caves—2,000 miles from home”
– CNN “Cats may have been pets along the Silk Road over 1,000 years ago”.
– Science News “Viking cat skeletons reveal a surprising growth in the size of felines over time”.
– EMBO Reports – Science and Society “The genetics of domestication”