With the help of cat owners, a new project investigates cats’ biology and aims to link some of their behaviors to their genes ...

A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grow from the ...

Groundbreaking partnership brings together science, community, and industry to unlock the mysteries of feline DNA and improve ...

After more than 60 years of genetic guessing, scientists have finally cracked the code behind what makes orange cats so… ...

Darwin’s Cats is adopting a novel sequencing approach known as fur-based sequencing to capture genetic data from thousands of felines. Owners are simply asked to brush their cat’s coat, send the fur ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the feline nobility of ancient Egypt with help from the Feline Genetics & Comparative Medicine Lab and Nathan the Cat Lady ...

Bengals are one of the most sought-after cat breeds in the world, in part due to a genetic trait that gives many of them ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

It was first seen in 2007, and a group of cat experts led by feline geneticist Heidi Anderson have been working to find out more about the shade since 2019. The team published a paper on the discovery ...