Why do cats choose one person? Discover the science behind feline favoritism, featuring peer-reviewed insights on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Conversation. I’m an evolutionary biologist who has spent my career studying the ...

Cats have purred beside humans for thousands of years, yet the reasons behind this soothing sound remain a mystery. A new ...

Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit ...

These orange felines have baffled scientists for over a century, as about 80% of orange house cats are males. Why, among all ...

(Chris Winsor/Getty Images) Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and floofiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't ...

Growing up, James Serpell had a cat named Mungo with a penchant for pencils. "If a pencil or pen was on the floor, the cat would bring them to us," he says. Then Mungo would sit and wait, hoping for a ...

Are your cats play fighting or fighting fur real? It turns out that certain behaviors in domestic cats could be telltale signs that an interaction is friendly, aggressive or something in between, ...

In news that probably won’t surprise cat owners, cats that play fetch do it on their own terms. Fetching felines tend to dictate when a fetching session begins and when it ends, a survey of over 900 ...

Cats have taken quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. Scientists long knew the broad outlines of that journey. As humans settled into agriculture and ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I’m an evolutionary biologist who has spent my career studying the evolution of small lizards in the Caribbean. I’m also a lifelong cat lover, but it never ...