Tokyo — An experiment on a herd of cows in central Japan appears to have proven a radical, nature-inspired solution to a pest problem that plagues the agriculture industry. Zebras and their gaudy ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s fierce competition in the wild, but you're more likely to see lions face off with panthers on the gridiron than in the great outdoors. So why do zebras masquerade as NFL referees in the wild?

Japanese scientists have come up with an ingenious way to keep flies off cattle — turn them into zebras. A team of researchers painted Japanese black cows with black-and-white stripes as part of the ...

These cows are dressed up to look like zebras, but not because they’re in the moo-d for Halloween. A group of agricultural researchers are giving cows zebra-like stripes because they seem to deter ...

Mystery solved Zebras have stripes to deter the tsetse and other blood-sucking flies, according to a fresh bid to settle a debate that has raged among biologists for over 140 years. Since the 1870s, ...

Most of us think zebra stripes are for camouflage, but a University of Calgary study has found that’s not the case, CBC News Calgary reports. The problem is, we look at zebras through human eyes, said ...

It’s been eons and we still don’t quite have a definitive explanation for why zebras evolved their distinctive stripes. But the more that scientists put zebra stripes on other hoofed animals, the more ...