If you’ve always thought of a zebra’s stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection against predators, it’s time to think again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis ...

Zebra stripes, besides looking very cool, help to ward off biting flies, a new study finds. The research, published in Nature Communications, negates the popular theory that zebra stripes evolved for ...

Research suggests zebras may use stripes for temperature regulation. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A gangrene-inducing bite in Africa, 40 years of curiosity, and backyard ...

Zebras are quite the communists. They graze together, groom each other and stay in packs to protect themselves from predators. And while some herds reportedly contain harems, a recent study observed ...

For more than a century, Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories have delighted children (and adults) with imaginary explanations of how animals came to look the way they do. But while Kipling addressed ...

What’s black, white, and a scientific conundrum? To biologists, the answer is zebra stripes. Charles Darwin admitted he was perplexed by the bold pattern in his 1871 treatise The Descent of Man, and ...

Zebras have a lovely black and white coat. But which colour is on top of which, remains a mystery. Is it white over black or black over white? Even looking very carefully at the animal does not give ...

Joren Bruggink of Aeres University of Applied Sciences, at left, and Jai Lake of the University of Bristol investigate how horseflies behave around horses wearing different colored coats. This was ...

If you’ve always thought of a zebra’s stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection against predators, it’s time to think again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis ...

Looking through the eyes of zebra predators, researchers found no evidence supporting the notion that zebras' black and white stripes are for protective camouflage or that they provide a social ...