Color patterns seen in fish and other animals evolved to serve various purposes. Lagunatic Photo/iStock via Getty Images Plus A thought experiment can help visualize the challenge of achieving ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers have advanced their breakthrough theory – and it could help ...

But he didn’t have all the information, and evolution layered complexity over his simple activators and inhibitors. “The Turing pattern is definitely important,” says Yipeng Liang, a biologist at the ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.