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 ...

A century ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological ...

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 ...

Those distinctive stripes might not be camouflage after all. JOE PENNEY/Reuters/Corbis How did zebras get their stripes? There’s no way to look back into evolutionary history and pinpoint the reason ...

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 the ...

The same physical process that helps to remove dirt from laundry could explain how tropical fish and other patterned animals get their spots, according to new research. Published in Science Advances, ...

Footballers wearing striped kits may have an advantage over their opponents because the pattern quickly becomes blurry when it's moving. That's according to scientists at Newcastle University, who ...

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 the cat ...

For Rudyard Kipling, the answer of how zebras got their stripes was simple: to hide from predators in the dark and dappled forest of the High Veldt in Africa. But now there's a more scientific ...

To Ma, release is the most rewarding moment. "Captive animals have dull eyes, as if they're just living mechanically. Once they're in nature, their gaze comes alive, you can see the light in their ...