Modern Maine Coon cats are descended from natural genetic variation of cats living in Maine. Their viral popularity now is spurring cat breeders to selectively breed to make them bigger and bigger ...

The longtime cat fancier also shares her Dartmouth home with 16-month-old litter mates Marlin Purrkins, a classic red tabby, and Claude Hoppurr, a brown-ticked Maine Coon that has won several ring ...

The Maine Coon is one of the most loyal, personable, and lovable cat breeds around.

Meet Omar the cat. He is a breed known as a Maine coon cat, owned by Stephy Hirst, of Melbourne, Australia. He may be the world's longest cat. Hirst told the BBC that Omar measures 3 feet 11 ...

The Humane Society of the United States rescued 110 Maine Coon cats and kittens from a large-scale commercial breeding facility in Virginia.

More From Newsweek Vault: Best Pet Insurance for Cats Maine coons are direct descendants of Norweigan forest cats, which are naturally very big, Maine Coon Central reported.

Iris Grace Halmshaw, a 7 year old girl from Leicestershire, England with severe autism, recently featured on ITV.com along with her maine coon cat named Thula, deserve special mention. Thula not ...