Four peregrine falcon chicks have hatched on the Salisbury Cathedral tower – and you can help come up with their water-themed names ...

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

Two separate groups studying the mysterious case of the orange cat coat came to the same conclusion: the orange color happens ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are ...

They knew from the preponderance of male orange cats that the mutation—dubbed sex-linked orange—was somewhere on the X chromosome. (As in most mammals, females have XX while males have XY sex ...

Inherently, the studies also explain why most orange cats, about 80%, are male. So, to answer the question: What makes orange cats orange? Here's a deeper look into the findings of the two studies.

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a ...

Scientists have finally narrowed down on a long theorised elusive genetic mutation that makes orange cats so unique, unlike any other mammal. While the orange fur colour can be seen across mammals ...

Scientists have long suspected that their orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding somewhere on the X chromosome of domestic cats. Male cats – just like male humans – have an X and a Y ...