Two-colored, bi-color cats possess two-colored fur, often white and some other simple color such as black, gray, or orange. They may have patterns ranging from a small percentage of white to more ...

Fur is a defining characteristic of mammals, coming in a wide variety of colors and patterns -- thanks to a world-first study, we now know which genes make a marsupial's coat black or grey.

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, grey-brown fur for camouflage.

However, as the clip goes on, the kittens' fur colors keep getting lighter and lighter. The third kitten is a light gray, dusty color, while the fourth is almost completely white, and the fifth is ...

Dkk4 variation, the team found, leads to different fur patterns. Mutations in the gene occur in Abyssinian cats, yielding their characteristic shorter, thinner strokes of color in a fur pattern ...

The salmiak pattern of white hairs is easiest to see in solid black cats, the study reported, but it can also appear in cats with other fur colors like in brown tabby, tortoiseshell, and blue cats.