What are the ancestors of cats?

It is said that the earliest ancestor of cats was a carnivorous tooth animal, which appeared in the Paleocene about 70 million years ago.

It is the ancestor of all cats. Then it slowly evolved. Finally, about 40 million years ago, saber-toothed tigers began to appear. It can be said that it is the earliest ancestor of cats. It lived intermittently until 20 thousand years ago. But now we can only see its fossils in the museum, imagine its formidable appearance and remember vilen's rough spirit.

About 3 million years ago, the genetic genes of cats were established and gradually evolved into all cats at present. The ancestor of Asian domestic cats is Indian desert cats, and the ancestor of European domestic cats is African bobcats.

During the Pliocene Ice Age, it was already a wild animal with footprints everywhere.

Cats were really domesticated quite late, about four or five thousand years ago. In contrast, dogs were domesticated much earlier, about 20 thousand to 15 thousand years ago. Young African wildcats are easy to domesticate, and it is generally believed that they are probably the main ancestors of domestic cats at present. Ancient Egypt was the earliest area where cats were raised, and it is quite possible that Egyptian women were the first domesticated cats.