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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

A hungry zebra sparked laughter poking its mouth through a family's car window at a safari zoo. Footage shows the black-and-white striped animal licking the side of the vehicle and attempting to stick ...

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 ...

A scaly creature with a “blunt” snout swam through a quick-moving river in southeastern Turkey. The animal was probably trying to go about its usual day, but nearby scientists had other plans. They ...

Some scientists think zebras' stripes significantly reduce the amount of insect bites they receive. To put that theory to the test, Japanese researchers painted cows with different patterns. Some cows ...

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 ...