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 ...

Leopards, cheetahs, Egyptian maus — a variety of cats have stunning spots. Others, like tigers, have stripes; still others, ...

Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive. Now engineers at CU ...

But maybe we can narrow the field a little. Today’s cats, both big and small, might be able to help us predict the presence of spots and stripes in their toothy, extinct relatives. After pulling ...

In 1952, mathematician Alan Turing published a paper with equations that could explain how animals got their spots and stripes. Mr Turing said that chemical agents were produced when their tissue ...

The spots on this leopard are much easier to see. Some big cats have spots - this big cat has stripes. Tigers are stripy all over. Look at the beautiful, thick, black stripes on this tiger.

But Stanford Medicine researchers have discovered a specific gene that drives much of the development of the stripes, blotches and spots that decorate all feline fur. "Color patterns are one of ...

The strikingly patterned ornate boxfish has no lack of detail when it comes to its hexagonal spots and keen stripes — the intricate markings are so sharp-edged in the species that it had ...

Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive. Now engineers at ...

When Ben Alessio visited the Birch Aquarium in San Diego, he found an unexpected clue to an age-old biological question: How do animals get their spots and stripes? On one level the answer is simple; ...