In the viral clip, a woman's sweet moment with her orange cat companion quickly devolved into a quick attack. The video has ...

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

A new bombshell has entered the villa! With his tiny legs, cute little cheeks, and permanently confused expression, this ...

Orange colors have been recorded in cats since Egyptian times. Now we know where it originates from.

Cats with orange coats get them from a deletion (meaning a missing segment) mutation in the noncoding region of a gene associated with both neuroendocrine tissues and pigmentation.

Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team. Scientists have long suspected that orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding ...

Why are orange cats orange? A small missing piece of DNA is why, 2 new studies explain The type of DNA mutation responsible for orange cat coloration is "very unusual," Stanford University genetic ...

Why cats are orange (and tortoiseshell and calico) Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of a sex-linked genetic mutation that give rise to ginger felines ...

Nine thousand years ago, humans began domesticating cats. Nine hundred years ago, before the advent of intentional cat breeding, a genetic mutation gave rise to the first orange cat. Days ago ...

Orange cats who are male (with X and Y chromosomes) and have ginger parents get completely orange fur while females (with two X chromosomes) have variances depending on which parent has the mutation.

At times, it seems the trouble that cats get into is entirely accidental. I can forgive my cat’s near-daily scattering of litter outside their box due to super-enthusiastic waste-burial ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are both cultural icons and beloved pets. But their distinctive color comes ...