Orange and tortoiseshell house cats (torties) have long been an enigma for hair coloration in mammals: now, the genetic basis ...

Share your love of cute and cuddly kitties with these cute kitten coloring pages for kids and adults. Print them for your ...

In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for color tones, the ARHGAP36 gene is much more active. 3 Professor Hiroyuki Sasaki, one of the lead scientists behind the study, started it as ...

Most people who are allergic to cats aren’t reacting to the fur—they’re reacting to a protein in cat saliva called Fel d 1.

A woman welcomed home a new kitten earlier this month as a furry sibling to the older cat, Dingo. She originally thought ...

Cats can see color—but not the same way humans do. Here’s the truth about how feline vision works and how it differs from ours. As much as we like to impose human personalities on our pets ...

A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grow from ...

Clementine, a 2-year-old black British Shorthair cat living in London, has amazed the internet thanks to one particularly rare feature—her striking orange eyes.

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are both cultural icons and beloved pets. But their distinctive color comes ...

Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team. Scientists have long suspected that orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding ...