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 ...

Imagine standing on the golden plains of Africa, the sun blazing overhead, and across the savanna, herds of striking black-and-white creatures graze peacefully. Their bold stripes seem almost out of ...

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

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 ...

But now there's a more scientific explanation, based on a mathematical model of cell-cell signaling, that provides more clues to how stripes and spots and other patterns emerge during animal ...

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 ...

And Willis Nisly had never seen anything like the zeedonk – deep gray in color with black stripes from head to ... Nisly as he stood next to a pen of animals he is training – his straw hat ...

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 ...

According to Paul 'Little Ray' Goulet, the founder of Little Ray’s Nature Centre, these stripes are as unique to a tiger as a fingerprint is to a human. The owner of the largest exotic animal ...

Often misunderstood, these desert-dwelling animals are celebrated on May 8 with fascinating facts and a call for greater ...