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

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

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 ...

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

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists—to ...

How the leopard really got its spots has finally been explained. The new work builds on research conducted by British ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...