Large wild mammals—from elephants to antelopes—are already struggling to cope with global warming. Now new research shows ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. There’s a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for inspiration. Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots ...

Animal stripes and spots might look decorative, but they’re the result of deeply complex biological processes that begin long ...

Maryland officials have unveiled a new plan to capture two missing zebras that escaped from a private farm over a month ago, and it involves using the help of even more of the striped animals. The ...

Whether an animal has spots, stripes or neither depends on the size of the embryo when two types of melanin form on its skin: eumelanin, which gives dark hair when abundant or light when not, and ...

This interactive board book features various striped and spotted animals, while cutaway flaps integrated into the digital collage art conceal an animal with the other patterning. Four “spotted dogs” ...

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 ...

There’s one less free-range zebra on the loose in Maryland. One of the three striped animals that broke out of a private farm in August has been found dead, caught in an illegal snare trap. A zebras ...

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists—to ...