Imagine locking eyes with a golden, spotted feline in the wild—your heart pounds, but can you say for sure if you’re seeing a ...

The average cheetah has tan fur studded with patches of black, in hundreds of round, one-inch spots. While a cheetah's white chest and stomach are spot-free, its tail is dotted, the dots merging ...

At first glance, leopards, cheetahs, and jaguars can look quite similar, especially because of their golden coats and spotted fur. But if one looks closely, their body patterns actually tell very ...

September 7, 2021 (Huntsville, Alabama)- Members of the Felidae family, more commonly referred to as cats, come in a variety of sizes and a range of varying fur colors and patterns. Tigers with ...

“Why does the tiger have stripes and the cheetah have spots? ... that embryonic differences in the expression of the gene DKK4 give rise to variations in the shape and colour of cat fur patterns.

Previous work from this team showed that a that gene regulates tabby cat color variation is the same gene that controls the different fur patterns seen in cheetahs and king cheetahs; the latter have ...