Caramel’s story: This big, gorgeous girl is a calico beauty queen. She’s a happy, friendly cat who would like to be your one ...

Nine thousand years ago, humans began domesticating cats. Nine hundred years ago, before the advent of intentional cat ...

Pita a 6-year-old petite dilute calico Manx. Pita is an energetic cat with a small frame and large, round eyes that are often ...

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

Well, this adorable little furball is living proof. In this adorable TikTok clip, uploaded by Morgan Augustine, we get a sweet little update on Blue, a three-year-old Calico dwarf cat. Blue, who was ...

Researchers in Japan say they have unlocked a long-standing mystery about the color of calico cats, known for their black, white and orange fur. The team includes Sasaki Hiroyuki, distinguished ...

Researchers had previously assumed that the mutation would be on the X chromosome because of the skewed sex ratio — it also explains why calico and tortoiseshell cats, which have patches of ...

While the orange fur colour can be seen across mammals, including tigers, golden retrievers, orangutans and red-headed humans, only in domestic cats is the colouration linked to sex, appearing ...

Female cats with one copy of sex-linked orange appear partially orange — with a mottled pattern known as tortoiseshell, or with patches of orange, black and white known as calico. That's due to a ...

A Japanese research team led by Kyushu University professor Hiroyuki Sasaki has said it discovered a gene that determines the color patterns of the tricolored calico cat, known in Japan as mike neko.