On December 11, 2024, in Hebei, China, @AnJìng shared a humorous video of two cats playfully fighting over a bowl of water.

Pet pictures with Santa and the best! Even if your sweetie pie doesn't really understand all the fuss, the end result is ...

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

Orange and tortoiseshell house cats (torties) have long been an enigma for hair coloration in mammals: now, the genetic basis ...

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

Yet humans seem to have a sweet spot for orange cats. Videos of their antics fill the internet, and gingers get the leading roles in TV and movies too (think: Garfield, Heathcliff, and Puss in Boots).

A persistent joke about orange cats is that they all share a single brain cell among them. Of course, this is not necessarily true, and there’s no reason that orange (also called “ginger ...

The work also explains why tortoiseshell and calico cats tend to be females Gayoung Lee The genetic basis for orange cats' coloration has long been unknown to scientists. oxygen via Getty Images ...

Most cats are non-orange, usually brown or gray tabbies with some pattern of black stripes, swirls or spots, or black or blue solid-colored cats. Tortoiseshell cats have a brindling pattern ...