With its black and white fur and fluffy mane, the zebra is one of the most distinctive creatures in the animal kingdom. But how exactly did the zebra get its stripes? Scientists from the University of ...

Stripes! Hexagons! They're everywhere! These patterns in nature might seem like aesthetic coincidences, but they are actually ...

The mystery of why zebras have black and white stripes may have been solved as scientists find the pattern 'dazzles' blood-sucking flies. Flies approach the animal with the intention of landing and ...

Zebra stripes give these equids a unique look, but the purpose of these distinctive markings has remains a question. Some biologists believed the stripes were utilized by the animals to regulate heat, ...

Horseflies are unpleasant insects that deliver powerful bites and now it seems that zebras evolved their stripes to avoid attracting the unpleasant pests. New research show that zebras have the least ...

How did the zebra get its stripes? The fashionable patterned coat protects the animal from horsefly bites by disorienting the flies during the landing process, research has shown. But how exactly do ...

Conventional wisdom says a zebra's black-and-white stripes camouflage the animal in tall grass—the better to evade the colorblind lion. But a new study says the pattern scrambles the vision of a ...

The striking patterns of zebra stripes have puzzled evolutionary biologists for a long time. And there are a number of hypotheses out there for why zebras have evolved their signature stripes, from ...

A zebra's stripes, a seashell's spirals, a butterfly's wings: these are all examples of patterns in nature. The formation of patterns is a puzzle for mathematicians and biologists alike. How does the ...

How did the zebra get its stripes? The fashionable patterned coat protects the animal from horsefly bites by disorienting the flies during the landing process, research has shown. But how exactly do ...