Spotted grey tabby cats have small spots or broken stripes. The classic grey tabby will have swirled markings and stripes ...

Of the nearly 60 million pet cats in the United States, one of the most common is the classic tabby—a coat pattern that features stripes, dots, and swirls and what looks like an M imprinted on ...

From where does a tabby cat get its stripes? The same place cheetahs get their spots. A new study finds the same gene that is responsible for the cheetah's color patterns causes a tabby's stripes.

But a new study, published Tuesday in the science journal Nature Communications, delves into a long-held kitty mystery: How exactly does a tabby cat's genes make those striking stripe patterns in ...

The research may focus instead on something like the mackerel tabby pattern in domestic shorthairs. The question of how cat stripes and splotches are made touches on some of the deepest ...

And it’s the same gene that turns a mackerel-striped tabby cat into a blotched “classic” one. Back in 2010, Eduardo Eizirik, one of O’Brien’s team, found a small region of DNA that ...

There is now, finally, a first cat at the White House. Willow is a two-year-old, green-eyed, grey and white-striped, short-haired tabby, hailing from Western Pennsylvania. First lady Jill Biden ...