Eye Color: They often have green or yellow eyes, and sometimes even a hint of orange. The famous "M" : All orange cats, without exception, have an "M" shaped mark on their forehead, in a darker color.

Clementine, a 2-year-old black British Shorthair cat living in London, has amazed the internet thanks to one particularly rare feature—her striking orange eyes.

The lost link in a gene called ARHGAP36 makes it so that the cells in orange felines produce lighter colors for their skin, eyes, and fur tone. In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible ...

Orange cats may be known for their silly behavior, but two new studies are a step closer to understanding "the why" behind the furry felines' coloring. Two independent studies published on May 15 ...

Step one was to identify genetic mutations that are unique to orange cats and might give rise to their color. For a decade, Kaelin has frequented cat shows, asking owners of ginger-colored cats if ...

Yet humans seem to have a sweet spot for orange cats. ... This gene controls the production of melanin, the pigment that gives hair, skin, and eyes their color, by cells called melanocytes.

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 ...

Garfield might be the most iconic orange tabby around, but Hollywood has seen quite a few leading cats of the same color—Heathcliff, Oliver, Hiyao Miyazaki’s adorably terrifying Catbus from My ...

Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, ... Studying cats’ coat colors, for instance, has informed various aspects of modern genetics, she says.