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It’s one of nature’s more intriguing and enduring mysteries: Why do zebras have stripes? Over the years, researchers have proposed a number of theories. Perhaps the animals’ signature coats help them ...

Humans have been living alongside animals for thousands of years, turning wolves into loyal dogs and wild cattle into dairy ...

Scientists explain the reason behind the zebra's unique stripes in new research that demonstrated findings by dressing horses up in the animal's tell-tale pattern. For many years, researchers have ...

Researchers are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed diversity.

The findings may have implications in technology, researchers said. Scientists believe they may have solved the mystery of why zebras have stripes. Zebras likely evolved to have stripes in order to ...

As the sun began to sink over the grasslands of central Mongolia, a herd of stocky, dun-colored horses emerged from a rocky outcrop on a slope where they had been sheltering from the blazing heat of a ...

To learn more about zebras' mysterious stripes, researchers decided to put black- and white-striped capes over horses. And, aside from feeling more fashionable, the horses attracted less flies, ...