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

Calm, gentle and overflowing with fur, the beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat is a sight to behold. As its name suggests, this ...

The gene that causes orange coloration in cats had been pondered for years, but never actually found—until now. Cats with ...

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.

There’s nothing like a good stretch—especially after a nap. No one understands this quite like a cat. In a video uploaded to TikTok by Pennyandthefosters, an adorable kitten named Kazoo does a stretch ...

Orange cats are so goofy that people joke that the chaotic kitties share one communal brain cell. But most of these domestic felines — along with multicolored calicos and tortoiseshells ...