Gil and Mariko are quite the sibling pair. Gil is the chill older brother, a standard Tabby. He loves mom, he loves playing.

A video of an oddly colored cat is causing a stir online as people debate whether its strange, patchwork coloration is just another type of calico cat or whether it is indicative of an even more ...

The cat appeared to be a mix of solid black and tabby - complete with heterochromia (one blue eye and one green eye). But it looked like photoshop to me. Is the chimera cat a real animal?

The third possibility, Ekenstedt said, is that a male calico could actually be a chimera. This would mean the cat has a mixture of XX and XY cells. This happens when two different embryos merge ...

For tortoise shell and calico cats, they possess a gene for orange on one X and a gene for black on the other, and which gene is expressed is often randomly distributed over their bodies.

A dilute calico cat's fur has much softer colors of gray-blue and cream, ... Read all about hybrid cat breeds and chimera cats. Edited by Georgia Guerin and Alexis de Leaver. Advertisement.

Calico cats have white, black and orange colors ... The textbook term for cats like Calboy is a "Chimera." These cats are born with two sets of DNA and have the ability to reproduce.

Cat Owner Explains Why She Decided to Adopt Two-Faced Feline: 'I'd Never Seen Anything Like It' "I thought she was beautiful," Janet Bell said of the unique chimera cat that she later named Luna By ...

A feline chimera is a cat whose cells contain two types of DNA, caused when two embryos fuse together. Among cats, "chimeras are really not all that rare," Lyons said.

When professional animal photographer Jean Michel Labat's photos of this unique, blue-eyed British shorthair feline hit the Internet, fans had to know more about the gorgeous chimera cat ...