Any animal’s eye color is determined by its levels of two melanin pigments: eumelanin, which makes brown-black, and ...

Our next set of kawaii coloring pages are for cat lovers and fans of all things cute! Prepare to be pawsitively delighted as ...

Here's where things get interesting: female cats have an extra gene for fur color on that extra leg of their second X chromosome. When a cat is female, the gene for either black or orange fur will ...

By Emily Anthes Federal officials who spent the last year grappling with a surge of bird flu infections in cows and people are now confronting a spate of new cases in cats, some of which have died ...

Since opening in 2017, Mac Tabby cat cafes in North Carolina have helped hundreds of cats find their forever home. The cafes have saved a few lucky humans too. Across the U.S., the number of cat ...

On New Year’s Day about 15 years ago, we spent hours looking for our cat. The fireworks had frightened the poor animal so much that it had hidden somewhere. We searched all its favorite places ...

A Maine coon cat named Mittens became an accidental jetsetter this month when her cage was overlooked in a plane cargo hold and she made three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia.

The what, now? you may ask, reading this title. The social life of cats? Cat owners may have some doubts about this very concept. But in the last decade or so, there has been an upsurge of more ...

If alternate universes do exist, there is probably one where the dominant cartoon animal (assuming they all have one) is not a mouse named Mickey, but a cat named Felix. And in this alternate ...

However, there's a scientific explanation for why you've likely never come across a feline with this lilac-tinged coat color.

Cats meow for several reasons, which change as they grow from kittens into cats. Kittens meow to their mothers to let them know when they're hungry, cold, or scared. But once kittens grow into ...