New research published in the Journal of Natural History indicates that zebras' stripes are used to control body temperature after all - and reveals for the first time a new mechanism for how this may ...

Where did zebras get their stripes? The answer to that is evolution, but that is a general answer for how any organism has the traits it has. A better question would be: "Why does a zebra have stripes ...

After four months on the run in the Maryland suburbs, two zebras that escaped from an exotic animal farm have been caught. Spokesmen for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health ...

Linda Pennoyer, the mayor of the town of Upper Marlboro, Md., said the zebras had become local “celebrities,” their every move documented on social media. By Michael Levenson Update: One of the zebras ...