Cats spend longer sniffing the odor of a stranger than that of their owner, suggesting that they can identify familiar humans based on smell alone, according to a study published in the open ...

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 ...

Domestic cats can tell the difference between the smell of their owner and that of a stranger, a new study suggests. The study by Tokyo University of Agriculture found cats spent significantly ...

Researchers in the United States and Japan have discovered the genetic basis for ginger cats' orange fur. The ARHGAP36 gene is responsible for this unique coloration. A missing DNA segment in this ...

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Two teams of scientists at Kyushu University in Japan and Stanford University in California determined that ginger cats’ color comes down to a missing segment of their genetic code, according to ...

Cats have lived alongside humans for thousands of years, and the remains of two domestic felines found in a nearly 500-year-old Spanish shipwreck likely represent the earliest example of the ...

Cats are such a prominent part of American culture today that it’s hard to imagine the country without them. But our feline friends arrived on our shores more recently than you may assume.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health have published a comprehensive review documenting research on bird flu in cats and calling for urgent surveillance of cats to ...

More than 70 cats in total were found in the home on Long Island on May 3 Suffolk County SPCA More than 70 cats — 28 of them dead — were found in a house in Bohemia, N.Y., on Saturday ...

Two dozen dead cats were stashed in the freezer, while the remains of newborn kittens were found inside old cat food boxes — as new details emerge about a putrid feline-infested Long Island home.