Meow Mix

The news that researchers have gained a major insight into the evolution of cats was greeted with great excitement at Kiko's House where, truth be known, felines rule the roost.

According to a New York Times report today, some two million years after the cat family first appeared in Asia, they invaded North America by crossing the land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska, according to a team of geneticists writing in the journal Science.

The Times says that:

Later, several American cat lineages returned to Asia. With each migration, evolutionary forces morphed the pantherlike patriarch of all cats into a rainbow of species, from ocelots and lynxes to leopards, lions and the lineage that led to the most successful cat of all, even though it has mostly forsaken its predatory heritage: the cat that has induced people to pay for its board and lodging in return for frugal displays of affection.

What cat lover can’t relate to that?