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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cats land on their feet using an "air-righting reflex," where their spine twists mid-air to reorient their body during a fall.

Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The mystery of how cats are able to right themselves in the air after a fall and land on all fours has been debated for over a century. Researchers ...