Cats are incredible acrobats capable of leaping onto high surfaces and gracefully balancing on narrow railings with ease.

This feline mystery has been solved.

(Linas Toleikis/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing regularity. A famous scientific ...

Felines may not literally have nine lives, but this is one reason they sometimes seem to.

In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats always seem to land on their feet when they fall? Usi ...

Cats rarely crash and burn, always seeming to land on their feet. But how? Researchers have uncovered the secret behind their ...

Learn how variations in different parts of the spine allow cats to land upright.