A few years back, farmers in Japan’s Yamagata prefecture were scared to release their Black cows into farmlands. The moment these cows would step outside, gangs of cattle flies or gadflies would ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

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 ...

Zebra spiders are tiny, reaching only up to seven millimeters in length, with the males a bit shorter than the females. On their abdomens, there are typically three (maybe four) white stripes.

The plains zebra is the most common and widespread of the three recognised zebra species. With that unmistakable black-and-white striped hair, theyhttp://'+location ...