But the stripes of chipmunks and tigers, the speckles on fishes and chickens, and many other glorious animal features are laid down with exquisite precision. In a remarkable feat of self-organization, ...

Nature is full of many patterned animals, from the stripes on zebras, spots on leopards, to the intricate details on sea creatures. Researchers have studied for a long time the biological explanation ...

In recent years, wildlife content has become a big hit on social media, with animals that have unusual colours, patterns, or ...

A rare striped elk is going viral on Facebook. The Facebook page Casper Planet stated in a viral post that the elk, which ...

A farmer in central Pennsylvania is taking extra precautions for deer hunting season. Friz Konieczka doesn't want his animals mistaken for deer, so he painted bright orange stripes on his horses, his ...

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 ...