The saying goes, “cats always land on their feet.” Scientists have investigated the physics of falling cats since at least ...

The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and ...

In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats ...

For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing ...

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

The research continues, with a paper published in the journal The Anatomical Record reporting on new experiments to analyze the flexibility of feline spines. Over the centuries, scientists have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A time lapse of a falling orange cat. When cats fall, they flip themselves rightside-up with seemingly little effort — which has ...

An exceptionally flexible region of the spine enables falling cats to twist the front and back halves of their body ...

Cats' gravity-defying pivots mid-fall just got a clear scientific explanation. Researchers at Japan's Yamaguchi University ...