Cats cannot see in complete darkness. They do need some light. What makes them different is how efficiently their eyes use low light, especially at dawn and dusk. A large, dome-shaped cornea gathers ...

Cats sometimes get a bad rap. After all, cats claw the couch, knock objects off tables, jump on things they shouldn't, and so on. Yet, anyone who's ever been around a well-behaved cat knows these ...

When falling cats turn themselves the right way up before they hit the ground, they have a secret trick: a region of their spine that is exceptional at twisting. “We compared the flexibility of the ...

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 ...