Daily Cat Fun Facts

A falling cat has no initial rotation — but it rotates anyway. The secret is a spine that splits the body into two independently-twisting cylinders, with angular momenta that cancel each other out. This bend-and-twist reflex is fully mastered by 7 weeks old.

Every domestic cat, tiger, and cheetah carries the same 247-base-pair deletion in the Tas1r2 gene — making sweet taste physically impossible for all felines. Here's the molecular reason why your cat doesn't care about dessert.

That rapid jaw-chattering your cat does at the window? Scientists think it might be acoustic mimicry — wild cats have been caught imitating prey calls to lure animals closer. Here's what we know.