I have two ginger cats and two calico cats - and in my house, it's the ginger felines who are the most mischievous and vocal. But could their coat color really affect their behavior?

Two teams of scientists at Kyushu University in Japan and Stanford University in California determined that orange cats' color all comes down to a missing segment of their genetic code.

Cahn said that, for each gene, a cat inherits one copy, called an allele, from each parent. This determines how a particular trait will be expressed. A dominant allele requires only one copy for its ...

Cats can see color—but not the same way humans do. ... cats only have two cone photopigments,” so the way they see the nuances of color differs. Zelma Brezinska/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Now, however, a new cat coat color has officially been discovered. It’s called salmiak, ... So, they sequenced the genome of two salmiak cats and analyzed the genetic data to find their answer.

Two separate groups studying the mysterious case of the orange cat coat came to the same conclusion: the orange color happens when there's a partial "deletion" in a cat's X chromosome and an ...

But there’s officially a new cat color in town— salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice.’ ... See, technically speaking, cats only come in two colors—black and orange.

From American Shorthairs to Persians, discover the top breeds that frequently feature the calico pattern. These kitties are the cutest.

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 ...