Eighty percent of orange cats are male as compared to only twenty percent of their female counterparts. This is due to the way cat coat genetics are sometimes based on sex chromosomes. In fact, black ...

In most other mammals, like dogs, sheep, rabbits, and horses, mutations in a protein called Mc1r lead to red hair color, but ...

It has to be a challenge not to fall in love with each cat as a foster parent, and sometimes their personality wins the foster parents over, and they become an official member of the family. One calm ...

Beanie! We can't get enough of the calico cat. She is the sweetest little kitty, with an adorable little tummy. But don't let her adorable looks fool you, she can be very direct. Like when she ...

It’s a question I’ve always wanted the answer to.” For decades, ginger, tortoiseshell, and calico cats have fascinated scientists. In most mammals, humans included, red hair is caused by ...

It’s a question I’ve always wanted the answer to.” For decades, ginger, tortoiseshell, and calico cats have fascinated scientists. In most mammals, humans included, red hair is caused by mutations in ...

Barsh and his colleagues saw that all 145 orange cats they studied, as well as 6 calico and tortoiseshell cats (which also have orange patches), had the same stretch of missing DNA near the ...

SINGAPORE – Although the cat does not have a place in the Chinese Zodiac – something often attributed in folklore to trickery by the rat – 2024 has shaped up to be a year of feline frenzy.

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Two separate research teams found that the characteristic ginger, calico, and tortoiseshell colours in cats are due to a missing piece of DNA in a part of the cat's genome that doesn't make proteins.

Father Thaddeus Kotik sexually abused girls and boys at Trappist monastery off Pembrokeshire coast, report finds A monk used a pet tortoise to entice children and then sexually abuse them at a ...

Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why tortoiseshell and calico cats tend to be females Gayoung Lee The genetic basis for orange ...