Lucille, an 11-year-old senior rescue cat, has taken the internet by storm with her latest TikTok video, where she ...

In most other mammals, like dogs, sheep, rabbits, and horses, mutations in a protein called Mc1r lead to red hair color, but not in cats.

Melanocytes from orange cats were found to make 13 times as much RNA from the gene Arhgap36. The gene is located on the X ...

The newest resident at the Sunny Hill Care Center is named Snickers. A fluffy, long-eared little calico Japanese Harlequin ...

It has been known for more than a century that a cat’s X chromosome causes ginger fur – male cats have one copy and females ...

Barsh and his colleagues saw that all 145 orange cats they studied, as well as 6 calico and tortoiseshell cats (which also ...

The newest resident at the Sunny Hill Care Center is named Snickers. A fluffy, long-eared little calico Japanese Harlequin pet rabbit that has come to live with all of those that call Sunny Hill home.

After a century of research, scientists have finally found what is responsible for the coat color of domesticated orange cats ...

Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why tortoiseshell and ...

Researchers have finally cracked the 60-year-old mystery behind why orange cats are predominantly male. A study revealed that ...

Now, two studies have finally identified the genetic key to this mystery, solving a puzzle first theorized in 1912. The studies, conducted independently by Japanese and American research teams, have ...

For all other animals, including redheaded humans, we know what causes this characteristic colour, but surprisingly, we ...