Each barrel was outfitted with a different skin: white, black ... brown horse hide, light gray cattle hide, real zebra hide or an artificial coat composed of stripes of black and white cattle ...

Their fur is varying degrees of brown, white, gray, and even black hair, and the "follicles seem to give the skin a slightly different contrast." Polar bears have black skin that allows them to ...

For a long time, scientists have tried to understand why zebras have stripes and exactly how their unique black and white pattern ... animals with grey, featureless skin are more difficult for ...

Scientists think they know how zebras got their stripes – and the answer is far from black and white. They say that ... to land on stripes – and that zebra-sized bands are particularly ...

A rare zebra with tan stripes died ... In 2003 at Zoo Barcelona, a white-furred, pink-skinned gorilla named Snowflake died of skin cancer. Living relatives of Zoe, some of whom have tan stripes ...

The mystery of how and why the zebra acquired its stripes has puzzled scientists for centuries. But now zoologists believe the alternating black and white markings ... from their skin to help ...