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 ...

Explore the diverse and captivating world of domestic cat fur patterns ranging from classic and mackerel tabbies to ...

First and foremost, we look at the spot pattern as each hyena has a unique pattern of spots on their coat and this pattern doesn’t change as they get older. Easiest to look at are the spot ...

Amid that personal drama, he still found the time to publish a visionary paper on the mathematics of regularly repeating patterns in nature, which could be applied to the stripes on tigers and zebra ...