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

This Orange Cat's bold greeting to an Amazon driver showcases the quirky charm that makes these felines irresistible!

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — A stray cat walked almost three miles back to the community he calls home after residents took him to a shelter to get neutered. The orange cat named George lives in the Loma ...

Scientists have finally unraveled the long-standing mystery behind orange cat fur, pinpointing the Arhgap36 gene as the key factor. Two independent studies, one in the US and another in Japan ...

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...

A newly discovered gene, Arhgap36, explains the rare orange coloring in cats and why most are male. It could have effects beyond fur color.

Researchers have been studying cat coat genetics since the beginning of the 20th century, and yet the orange mutation, which the Stanford team called "sex-linked orange," has remained elusive ...

Any male cat with the mutation dubbed “sex-linked orange” will be entirely orange due to a random deletion of a section of its DNA in the X chromosome. However, a female cat needs to inherit ...

Male cats – just like male humans – have an X and a Y chromosome, so any male cat with this mutation ends up orange. Due to X chromosome inactivation, female cats require the mutation on both ...