May 7 (UPI) -- A high-flying Texas cat earned a Guinness World Record by leaping a distance of 8 feet and 5 inches. Oscar, a ...

The leap was measured by Guinness officials who were on hand to confirm the distance, making sure that Oscar’s impressive ...

Oscar, a Dallas rescue cat, broke the Guinness World Record for longest cat jump at 8 feet 5 inches after two years of ...

The feline set the world record for most skips by a cat in one minute by jumping a rope nine times in 60 seconds Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the ...

That's because cats are extremely flexible. They can twist their bodies mid-air as they fall. But landing feet first isn't always the best strategy. Like if you're falling from 32 stories up.