Nature creates incredible works of living art through its many different animal patterns, such as a leopard’s spots or a ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

From leopards to zebras, science explain how nature’s chemical dances create spots, stripes and swirls across animal skins ...

From tiger stripes to leopard spots, the animal world is full of distinctive and intricate patterns. In a new study, CU Boulder scientists refined their previous theory of how animal patterns form and ...

Imperfections in animal patterns could inspire adaptive materials that shift color, shape, and function like nature itself.

New research reveals how cell sizes and clumping create sharp animal coat patterns, enhancing our understanding of nature's ...

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic patterns and can be modeled using Turing’s diffusion function. The challenge ...

Many animals get their external marking—like, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. Scientists normally explain the spectacular ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human ...

Animal movement and foraging have long captivated researchers striving to understand the underlying principles that drive how organisms search for and exploit resources. Contemporary studies reveal ...