View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Many a fable and tale propose preposterous theories about how the zebra got its stripes, but now science has finally provided a possible answer.

Zebra stripes may serve as bug spray or air conditioning ... Some of those bachelors may try to take over a pre-existing herd ...

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 ...

This Texas lake has been infested by an invasive mussel that spells nothing but disaster for the local aquatic ecosystem.

On 31 January, people around the world will be marking International Zebra Day ... in little or no production of a pigment called melanin - which causes them to develop golden stripes.