De Martino et al, 2025 (Science) – selection of media outlet coverage
– February 2026, Scientific American, Pressing Paws – Felines followed a winding path to domestication.
– January 2025, Radio Deejay, Animal House, Interview to Claudio Ottoni (Italian).
– January 2025, Rai Radio1, Interview to Marco De Martino (Italian).
– December 2025, Rai Radio3 Scienza, Interview to Claudio Ottoni (Italian).
– November 2025, RaiNews24, Interview to Claudio Ottoni (Italian).
– November 2025, Teleambiente, Interview to Marco De Martino (Italian).
– November 2025, Rai2-TG2(Italian).
– November 2025, National Geographic, When did cats become domesticated? New DNA evidence changes the story.
– November 2025, The Independent, Modern Cats Were Domesticated Only 2,000 Years Ago.
– November 2025, Forbes, DNA study changes long-held theory of when cats were domesticated.
– November 2025, Deutschlandfunk, (German) Die Hauskatze hat andere Ahnen als vermutet.
– November 2025, NPR (USA): Domestic cats reached Europe far more recently than previously thought, study finds.
– November 2025, Wired (Italian): Il gatto domestico è arrivato in Europa “solo” nel primo secolo dopo Cristo, molto più tardi di quanto credessimo.
– November 2025, ORF Radio Austria: (German) Römer brachten wohl Hauskatzen nach Europa.
– November 2025, IFLScience: We Finally Know Where Pet Cats Come From – And It’s Not Where We Thought.
– November 2025, ABC News: Domesticated cats may have arrived in the West much later than previously thought.
– November 2025, ScienceNews: Ancient DNA rewrites the tale of when and how cats left Africa.
Other Felix media outlet coverage
– June 2025, Il Venerdì di Repubblica: Guardiamolo bene è lui il gatto che ci ha stregati (Italian)
– 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”
