Kenny was a white Bengal tiger with a deformed face and cross-eyes due to inbreeding. Explore the unique story of Kenny, 'the tiger with Down syndrome'.

Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why tortoiseshell and ...

Orange cats are just cats, but if you ask anyone who's lucky enough to have one, they'll swear that the orange-ness makes a ...

Now, two studies have finally identified the genetic key to this mystery, solving a puzzle first theorized in 1912. The studies, conducted independently by Japanese and American research teams, have ...

For all other animals, including redheaded humans, we know what causes this characteristic colour, but surprisingly, we ...

For decades, orange cats have charmed their way into homes and hearts. But their vibrant fur color has been a genetic mystery ...

Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, orange. He is orange in the same way that some people are redheaded ...

Barsh and his colleagues discovered cat skin cells from which orange fur sprouts express 13 times as much RNA from a gene called Arhgap36, compared with skin cells from cats with no orange hair.

What do Garfield, Heathcliff and Puss in Boots have in common? They’re all cats, they’re all orange and they’re all males. This is no accident. As it turns out, most orange cats are male ...

Researchers have finally cracked the 60-year-old mystery behind why orange cats are predominantly male. A study revealed that ...

The orange colour of some cats’ coats is thought to be owing to a genetic anomaly. (Moganraj Villavan @ FMT Lifestyle) The scientific community has long been at a loss to explain the genetic ...