Discover 10 animals with stripes and learn why some animals have them and others don’t! Scientific name: Panthera tigris Although there are multiple subspecies found throughout the world ...

Which do you like best - stripes or spots? Stripy zebra and stripy tiger… or spotty leopard and spotty giraffes? Explore the different patterns that animals have on their bodies: giraffes and ...

A zoo in eastern China has been criticised for dyeing the fur of chow chow puppies to resemble tiger stripes, in a bid to ...

Skunks' stripes fade in safer environments, showing how less danger leads to evolutionary changes in warning coloration.

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 characteristic light-colored ...

In one photo, a zoo worker was seen standing next to a donkey which was defaced with nearly perfect black and white stripes running across its body. After a heated debate about the animals ...

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 ...

The stripes had an immediate effect. “Many farmers have hesitated to release their cattle on farmland because they feel sorry for the animals being targeted by gadflies,” said an official with ...

while Red Sea mantis shrimp are beige with thin red stripes and a dark rear end. But all these animals are best known for their mighty front claws—responsible for their impressive hunting skills.