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"Lizards, skinks and dragons were secured in calico bags. These bags were concealed in bags of popcorn, biscuit tins and a women's handbag and placed inside cardboard boxes," the statement said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

One contributor wrote: "We are siblings in the first and third grades of elementary school. We donated with our pocket money. Use it for research on calico cats."

From BBC ● May 15, 2025

At the time of this story's publication, both are still at the shelter waiting to be adopted . . . although the calico is currently advertised as bonded with a different gray tabby.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

They also found that skin from calico cats had more Arghap36 RNA in orange regions than in brown or black regions.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

He had just brought some calico scallops ashore when we heard the rifle shot.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

The Hansons' cat is specifically a torn, and cat lovers soon pointed out that all calicoes are female.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

Another visitor at Montpellier had been greatly surprised to see the women, neatly dressed in bright calicoes, going to church; and when a shower came, to see the dozen umbrellas that were raised.

From Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella Kent Barnard

We don't care a rush about Homer or Dante, but we want to sell pig-iron and printed calicoes.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

Arhgap36’s inactivation pattern in calicos and tortoiseshells is typical of a gene on the X chromosome, Brown says, but it’s unusual that a deletion mutation would make a gene more active, not less.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

Most orange cats are boys, a quirk of feline genetics that also explains why almost all calicos and tortoiseshells are girls.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

The prints are Laura Ashley-esque micro-florals, calicos and gingham, the necklines are high, sometimes there is a bib or apron, there is usually at least one ruffle.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2018

Rainbow and cc have different coloring, for example, since the coats of calicos are determined partly by genes and partly by random molecular changes during development.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Preston surges to her feet, a mountain of calicos and lace.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland