It was revealed this past week that Hello Kitty, the popular cartoon character with whiskers and triangular-shaped ears, is not a cat. Related: PHOTOS: Celebs as cartoon characters!

“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Koch, the senior vice president of marketing and brand management at Sanrio, the creators of the iconic cartoon, told Today. “She’s actually a little girl.” ...

Hello Kitty fans were left yowling on Thursday as major news broke about the adorable little cartoon character ... Hello Kitty fans were left yowling on ... a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. ...

Hello Kitty did not originate from a television show, movie, or comic book. This is unusual for a character with such ...

Fans of Hello Kitty might be drawn to the simple lines of the cartoon, or the “cute” style of Japanese culture. Leslie Bow takes the conversation much deeper. When Hello Kitty had her 50th birthday in ...

Maybe Putin can convince Hello Kitty's creators that he's not hacking away at Ukraine and the computers of JP Morgan Chase, because no one else in buying his line.

Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature.

Hello Kitty celebrates her 40th birthday with the first-ever North American exhibition in her name. Here are five things to know before you go.

Since her creation in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a global figure worth an estimated $7 billion to Sanrio. It's not the first time there have been doubts raised about who, or what exactly, a ...

Radiograph Kitty. Owned by Sanrio – a Japanese branding company that specialises in Kawaii, or cute, cartoons – Hello Kitty is a girl character that looks like a white bobtail cat with no ...

There's still time to catch the Hello Kitty Friends Around the World Tour, Sanrio’s new pop-up experience celebrating the icon’s 45th anniversary.