Get ready to discover some of the most fascinating, lesser-known theories behind one of evolution’s most iconic designs. One of the most captivating ideas is that zebra stripes create a visual ...

While Alison agrees with Caro’s findings, she thinks biting flies “seems too unimportant an effect” to have driven the evolution of zebra stripes. “Every zebra must avoid getting hot ...

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 ...

I was confused when I first saw it." Ren Larison, a biologist studying the evolution of zebra stripes at the University of California, Los Angeles, told National Geographic that Tira has a ...

At least since the days when Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were theorizing about evolution ... agree that the function of a zebra’s stripes is to ward off biting flies that can ...

For more than a century, Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories have delighted children (and adults) with imaginary explanations of how animals came to look the way they do. But while Kipling ...

Tombak, who studies the evolution of animals’ social behavior ... Scientists have known since the 1980s that zebra stripes repel flies, and many believe that zebras evolved their distinctive ...

If the zebra were piebald, like a circus horse, instead of being covered with narrow stripes, he would be sufficiently conspicuous to his friends in the daytime; yet, obviously, such markings ...

Zebra stripes evolved in Africa to defend mostly ... of bringing out certain favorable characteristics. 2. How is the evolution of watermelon similar to the evolution of the golden retriever ...