Earliest Domesticated Cats in the U.S. Identified in Spanish Shipwreck

PENSACOLA BAY, FLORIDA—Although cats can be found in one third of all American households today, the beloved felines are not native to North America and were first brought to the New World on the ships of European conquistadors and colonists. The skeletal remains of domesticated cats have been found in both the Spanish colonial settlement of St. Augustine and the early British colony at Jamestown. According to a Live Science report, the…..

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