Some scientific questions are hard because the subject is inaccessible. Others are hard because ...

About 30 miles north of the equator, in central Kenya, Kaia Tombak and her colleagues stood beside a plexiglass box. Tombak, who studies the evolution of animals’ social behavior, was dressed for the ...

Fall is animal print season but this year is all about zebra stripes (don't worry! We still love you, cheetah print ). Stars ...

A new study suggests that zebras’ black and white stripes function to help the animals to control their temperature. The research also points to a new a mechanism for how this control of body ...

Zebra stripes may "dazzle" blood-sucking flies as they are coming into land, new research has shown. Scientists conducted an unusual experiment involving zebras and horses dressed in black and white ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have found why zebra fur is thinly striped and sharply outlined. Their findings, published Feb. 17 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, reveal that stark ...

The mystery of why zebras have their characteristic stripes has perplexed researchers for over a century. Over the last decade, Professor Tim Caro at the University of Bristol's School of Biological ...

For decades, farmers have used pesticides to protect livestock from biting flies, but what if a paintbrush could do part of the job instead? It might sound odd, but scientists in Japan discovered that ...