To human eyes their distinctive black and white stripes seem to offer little camouflage in the drab surroundings of the African Savannah. But it seems the conspicuous patterns of zebra do not fool the ...

Conventional wisdom says a zebra's black-and-white stripes camouflage the animal in tall grass—the better to evade the colorblind lion. But a new study says the pattern scrambles the vision of a ...

Zebras evolved black-and-white stripes to confuse predators by creating an optical illusion when the animals move, scientists say. While different theories have been put forward to address this ...

If you’ve always thought of a zebra’s stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection against predators, it’s time to think again, suggest scientists at the University of Calgary and UC Davis ...

This guy doesn't think his stripes are all that good at camouflaging him. Zebra stripes are striking and beautiful, but what purpose do they serve? A new study suggests the stripes help the animals ...

Researchers from the Lund University in Sweden and the Eotvos University at Budapest in Hungary have discovered the reason behind why zebra got its stripe Reuters Zebras got their stripes to avoid ...

Those distinctive stripes might not be camouflage after all. JOE PENNEY/Reuters/Corbis How did zebras get their stripes? There’s no way to look back into evolutionary history and pinpoint the reason ...

It's a question that has been debated since the time of Darwin, and now a Calgary researcher is one step closer to answering the age old puzzle: "Why do zebras have stripes?" Contrary to popular ...