Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots ... from the future spine line — with those that move sideways producing diamonds, and those that move outward and tailward ...

Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots ... from the future spine line — with those that move sideways producing diamonds, and those that move outward and tailward ...

But Stankowich and others have noticed something curious about striped skunks. The animals can possess different patterns, from a small patch of white on their heads to bold white stripes that ...

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 ...

How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...

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 ...

Stripes are common in our lives. It’s a pretty basic pattern, and easy to take for granted. As an applied mathematician who studies how patterns form in nature, though, I am wowed by the striped ...