(Pai-Shih Lee/Moment/Getty Images) If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. It turns out, genetically speaking, they really are. Orange fur is one of the most ...

Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, found himself thinking about cats. Not just any cats, but the loud, lovable, and often male ones streaked in unmistakable marmalade. These orange ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orange cats have a unique genetic mutation that gives them their special coats — and this mutation also explains why so many of ...

Many an orange cat-affiliated human will vouch for their cat’s, let’s say, specialness. But now scientists have confirmed that there is, in fact, something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines.

It was long predicted that the source of domestic cats’ distinctive pumpkin-orange fur coloring was genetic and was produced by a gene on the sex-determining X-chromosome because 80% of orange cats ...

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Scientists have confirmed that there is something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines. In a new study, Stanford Medicine researchers have discovered the long-posited but elusive genetic mutation ...