Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots, diamonds, chevrons, hexagons and even mazelike designs. Some, like peacocks, want to be seen, to attract a mate or scare off a ...

Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots, diamonds, chevrons, hexagons and even mazelike designs. Some, like peacocks, want to be seen, to attract a mate or scare off a ...

Of the nearly 60 million pet cats in the United States, one of the most common is the classic tabby—a coat pattern that features stripes, dots, and swirls and what looks like an M imprinted on ...

Inspired by these findings, we set out to explore whether the same pattern applied ... the size of their malar stripe was unrelated to the level of sunlight exposure. In our new analysis ...

which forms spots and stripes. The engineers ran a series of computer simulations using equations to mimic the purple pattern on boxfish skin, one with their hypothesis and one with Mr Turing’s ...

“We noticed that the baby octopuses we were raising seemed to retain the same stripe patterns from the age that the stripes are first visible—the stripe pattern never shifted, it just grew ...

Back in 1952, Turing suggested that natural biological patterns like stripes or spots could form in the presence of two molecules: a slow-moving activator and a fast-moving inhibitor. The activator ...