A falling cat under normal Earth conditions can twist its body toward the ground and prepare to land on its feet. When American researchers placed cats aboard specially modified aircraft producing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Linas Toleikis/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat ...

How a falling cat is able to right itself and land on its feet has long been a mystery. Scientists have been trying to figure it out for more than a century. In 1894, a scientific exploration of the ...

Cats are wily little creatures. Their personalities are questionable, their bodies can wriggle into shapes that seem physically impossible. And how the heck do they land on their feet every time they ...

In 1894, French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats always seem to land on their feet when they fall? Using the era’s rudimentary ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jen Reeder is an award-winning journalist who specializes in pets. Pilot Chelsea Tugaw holds Mirage, a senior cat who survived a ...