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

From the black cocoons, yellow and black striped butterflies spread their wings in flight from southern Ontario, Canada, to Pennsylvania. Researchers studying butterflies collected the animals for ...

It's skunk mating season in Kansas and that means skunks are on the move. Striped skunks are classified as furbearing animals ...

like communally living striped mice that go solo once they start breeding, or raccoon-like coatis, whose males are solitary and females hunt in bands. Studying solitary animals and their social ...

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 ...

Ring-tailed lemurs are unmistakable because of their long, vividly striped, black-and-white tail ... These groups may include 6 to 30 animals, but average about 17. Both sexes live in troops ...