Pepper the cat, whose owner works at the University of Florida, gathered a specimen containing a never-before-seen virus for ...

Pepper the cat made headlines last year when a mouse he caught tested positive for a type of jeilongvirus, which had never been seen before in the United States. Now, he has done it again, this time ...

National Climate Education Health Innovations Investigations National Security Obituaries Science. On the Trail of the Cat, Scientists Find Surprises. By Rob Stein. March 17, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. EDT.

Our enigmatic little furry friends may have just given up one of their secrets, as scientists think they have discovered the gene which underpins purring in cats. Cats are believed to purr for ...

In the case of cats, conservation scientists often report the numbers of animals that cats affect, whether it’s dozens of species pushed to extinction or billions of individuals killed. They hold up ...