Any Maine Coon cat can be considered stunning, with their larger-than-typical-house-cat size, gigantic paws, and huge floofy ...

After wandering into a couple's shed to find a safe place to sleep, a stray calico cat won their hearts, and now he has a ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

Cats and dogs can get along much better than the movies will portray, but there will also be times when they don’t like each other very much. They’re siblings, and siblings fight. A prime example of ...

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 ...

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - This week’s pick of the Litter is Lucy Longbottom. Lucy is a easy going 12 pound calico cat. She’s seven years old and came to BENCHS after her owner could no longer ...

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.

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a genetic mutation on the X chromosome of orange, calico and ...

The discovery explains why most orange cats are male and why females with one copy of the gene develop calico or tortoiseshell coats. The study also suggests the orange gene may influence more than ...