Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most mammals, Tim Caro says, are “rather boringly colored, drab browns and grays.” But zebras? Far from it. Their stripes are stark, beautiful and decidedly ...

LONDON (AP) — Zebra stripes are dazzling — particularly to flies. That's the conclusion of scientists from the University of Bristol and the University of California at Davis who dressed horses in ...

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

Debate has long raged over the reasons for a zebra's stripes, with scientists spending decades theorizing over the evolutionary causes for the animal's iconic patterns. A new study has shed further ...