Zebra sharks grow to an average length of 2.5-3 meters (8-10 feet) long, with an elongated tail that can be nearly as long as the rest of their body. Juveniles sport dark bodies with white spots and ...

A team of Japanese researchers has been awarded the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cows can protect them from biting flies. The award was announced at ...

The Ig Nobel Prize for biology is accepted by Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Say Sato, Tatsuaki Masuda, Junichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Hirooka, ...

A leopard may not be able to change its spots, but some zebras change their stripes. Zebras in warmer places have more stripes, a new study shows, which might help answer an age-old question: Why ...

BOSTON (Kyodo) -- A group of 11 Japanese scientists won the Ig Nobel prize in biology on Thursday for their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the ...

The zebrafish, Danio rerio, is a fast expanding and extremely valuable model system for studying vertebrate developmental biology. Because its introduction as a modern experimental model organism in ...

A plan to reduce calorie intake by adding Teflon to food and painting cows to look like zebras so they might get bitten by flies less are among the winning research projects of this years Ig Nobel ...

A group of Japanese researchers won this year's Ig Nobel Prize for biology on Thursday for their discovery that painting cows in a zebra pattern makes them attract fewer blood-feeding insects. It is ...

A team of Japanese researchers has been honored with an Ig Nobel Prize for its study which was aimed at finding out whether cows painted with zebra-like stripes could avoid being bitten by flies. The ...

Vietnamese businesses are adopting new approaches to improve traceability and consumer trust, even as global markets demand more modernised supply chains. Tran Thi Bao Tran, Zebra Technologies’ newly ...