Its fur is uniquely spotted and striped, and its silent movement resembles a shadow in the thicket: The ocelot is one of the ...

The Cornish Rex, despite its unique appearance, is a cat breed that is relatively rare in this country. With its friendly ...

From birth, with a picture-perfect coat and a heart full of individuality: Pebbles is more than just an exceptionally beautiful cat. The combination of her fur colors and features is as genetically ...

Bengal cats are one of America’s most popular exotic pets, behind bearded dragons, snakes, and lizards. Bengals are not often ...

The Persian is one of the most popular cat breeds, probably because it's best known for being one of the calmest breeds. Not ...

Vlad might just have the biggest head of all, though. He’s described by his mom/the breeder as a “big, squishy teddy bear,” ...

On the Ragdoll rarity scale, cinnamon is considered “elite.” While there are rarer versions of these gorgeous cats, the rust/cinnamon/chocolate coloring — whatever you want to call it! — is one of the ...

Without getting too deep into the genetics, the X chromosome holds the code for black or orange pigmentation (white is driven by another mechanism). So a male cat (XY) with the variant can be ...

Male cats, with only one X chromosome, will have orange coats if they inherit the orange gene. Females, with two X chromosomes, need two copies of the gene to be fully orange, making them less common.

Male cats with orange-colored parents only get one copy of the orange mutation and thus end up with entirely orange fur. Female cats, however, have two X chromosomes.

Female cats with one copy of sex-linked orange appear partially orange—with a mottled pattern known as tortoiseshell, or with patches of orange, black and white known as calico.

Scientists from Kyushu University have identified the long-sought “orange gene” behind ginger fur in domestic cats—a deletion mutation in a gene on the X chromosome. This discovery explains ...