Why do cats always land on their feet? It’s one of science’s most enduring mysteries in the realm of pets. The first paper on ...

The saying goes, “cats always land on their feet.” Scientists have investigated the physics of falling cats since at least ...

A cat with lots of extra toes has melted hearts online this week after a video of her "making biscuits" was viewed over 900,000 times. Not the only feline to delight viewers this week, a video of two ...

In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats always seem to land on their feet when they fall? Usi ...

For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing ...

Sansa the Polydactyl Cat boasts over 22,000 followers on Instagram Introducing Sansa the Polydactyl Cat! The newest internet sensation, Sansa is a six-year-old snowy cat from New York City who was ...

Learn how variations in different parts of the spine allow cats to land upright.

Sometimes we encounter “bigfooted” cats, which upon closer inspection, have extra toes. Usually, cats have five toes on each front foot and four on each back foot. Yet polydactyly (literally “many ...