Humans love stripes so much, they use them in interior décor, fashion, and architecture. Sometimes, they even use specific animal prints, further spreading the uniqueness of wildlife throughout ...

The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic animal patterns thanks to differential ...

Tigers populations have faced decades of habitat destruction, poaching, and human-wildlife conflict, leading to a dramatic ...

It's got black and white stripes all over. When you see a herd of zebra together, it becomes one big stripy pattern. No other animal looks so striking on the African plains. The zebra can't hide ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If a zebra zigs, will its stripes make a predator zag? That’s the idea behind motion dazzle, a century-old hypothesis ...

these remarkable animals have a wider range of options than most when it comes to camouflage while moving,” explained senior author Dr Martin How. The team filed 28 passing stripe hunting ...

The stripes had an immediate effect. “Many farmers have hesitated to release their cattle on farmland because they feel sorry for the animals being targeted by gadflies,” said an official with ...

Investigator, Harvard University HHMI researchers find that a gene that blocks the differentiation of pigment-producing cells in the skin of the African striped mouse helps in generating the mouse’s ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — German police officers found themselves face-to-face with two zebras, six monkeys, and several other ...

Due to their fast colour-changing skin, these remarkable animals have a wider range of ... the scientists were able to show that the passing-stripe display is camouflaging the predator while ...