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 ...

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 ...

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.