The coat of the traditional tabby, or ‘bullseye’ or "swirled," is the most typical fur pattern of house cats. It features wide, rounded spots on the sides and a clear ‘M’ on the forehead.

The color of an animal’s fur is quite complex and can tell us things ... It was through this predictive model that they discovered the distinct evolutionary pattern of dark fur in early mammals. The ...

Their findings are published in the journal Animal Genetics ... that this variant matched perfectly with the salmiak fur pattern. Three additional salmiak cats, who hadn't had their whole genome ...

In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they created a predictive model to analyze melanosome patterns found in fossilized fur samples. Over the past decade ...