A drawing by Sheila Girling, wildlife biologist Tim Caro's mother, in Caro's new book, 'Zebra Stripes.' (Sheila Girling/illustration) The distinct black and white stripes of zebras capture people’s ...

Where did zebras get their stripes? The answer to that is evolution, but that is a general answer for how any organism has the traits it has. A better question would be: "Why does a zebra have stripes ...

Japanese researchers who proved that drawing zebra-like stripes on dairy cows can repel flies have won the Ig Nobel Prize in biology. It is not Nobel season yet. Before that, the knockoff Nobel with ...

Zebras' thick, black stripes may have evolved to help these iconic creatures stay cool in the midday African heat, a new study suggests. Many African animals sport some stripes on their bodies, but ...