When cats fall, they usually land on their feet. This uncanny ability to right themselves before hitting the ground has long puzzled scientists. Now, a team from Yamaguchi University in Japan has the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: As any ailurophile—the unnecessarily fancy way to reference a cat lover—knows, felines have the almost supernatural ability to pull off a hushed ...

When falling cats turn themselves the right way up before they hit the ground, they have a secret trick: a region of their spine that is exceptional at twisting. “We compared the flexibility of the ...

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