Coral reef fishes, including clownfish, display a wide variety of colors but it remains unclear how these colors evolved or how they develop throughout a fish's life. Research published in BMC Biology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns There's a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for ...

A new algorithm could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes, as well as how other patterns in nature self-assemble. The iconic stripes of zebrafish are a classic example of ...

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 ...

Kenya, Amboseli National Park, close up of zebra stripes. Scientists aren’t sure, but one theory, dubbed the “motion dazzle hypothesis,” suggests that high-contrast patterns create an optical illusion ...

If your cat has bold stripes or scattered spots, you may assume you are looking at a specific breed. You may be surprised to ...