Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a part of their genetic code. As a result, the cells responsible for their ...

However, one warning sign that a cat could be ill in some way is that the cat hides away in a secluded area to sleep there instead of sleeping in an open place. That is an old survival instinct: a ...

WASHINGTON — Cat lovers know when kitties groom, their tongues are pretty scratchy. Using high-tech scans and some other tricks, scientists are learning how those sandpapery tongues help cats ...

Except, Kaelin and colleagues discovered, in pumpkin-colored cats. "Arghap36 is not expressed in mouse pigment cells, in human pigment cells or in cat pigment cells from non-orange cats," Kaelin said.

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a part of their genetic code. As a result, the cells responsible for their ...

The scientists, whose research was crowdfunded by a whole crew of cat lovers, hope that their work could help us find out whether orange cats are at an increased risk of some health conditions, too.