With nearly 50 adorable entries this year, our annual Top Pet Contest did not disappoint, and this year YOU, our readers were ...

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it is—but the government wants to be prepared for a real-life version anyhow. The ...

Regardless of whether they happen to be dog or cat lovers, humans tend to prefer flat faces ... and the Persian, the language is very similar in terms of how they want the nose to be up between ...

Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals they evolved from ...

The Pallas’s cat is a curious creature that looks perpetually ... Unlike other cats, Pallas’s cats have flat, rounded ears and heads, which help them lie low and blend into the ground.

Despite a long history of evolutionary separation, flat-faced breeds like the Persian cat and pugs share similar skull structures. To investigate how far domestication has reshaped skull structure ...

Walk into any pet show and you’ll see them – flat-faced Persian cats with ... in remarkably similar language. The Cat Fanciers’ Association describes the Persian head as “round and massive” with a ...

Every cat is beautiful ... days about what constitutes the perfect Persian look. In recent decades, show standards for Persians favored an almost flat-face, a look called “pansy-like.” ...

This confusion prompted me to investigate the origins of three popular cat breeds ... Until the 1950s, the terms “Persian” and “Angora” were used interchangeably. Today, only the heavier-boned, ...

The video features a rescue cat, previously thought to be unfriendly, cuddling in the most adorable way — proving that even the most misunderstood pets can surprise us. Wilford, a Persian cat ...