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.

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.

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 ...

Munchkins are available in practically every coat and eye color, so it’s possible to find a munchkin with blue eyes and ...

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.

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 ...

Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their fuzzy feline friends as ‘freaks of nature’ and using similarly … ...

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 ...

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.

Spay-and-neuter clinics also contributed tissue after surgically sterilizing feral cats. The scientists sequenced the genomes from 200 out of 3,000 collected samples of orange cat DNA with non ...

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 ...