Certain animal species, such as the ornate boxfish, have detailed markings. How do these intricate patterns materialize? A team of engineers may have an answer.

There’s a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for inspiration. Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots, diamonds, chevrons, hexagons and even mazelike designs.

From spotty leopards to stripy zebras, nature has no shortage of distinct patterns on animals and plants. Now, the age-old question of how these patterns developed may have finally been solved.

Researchers analysing giraffe spot patterns found that mothers passed on traits such as roundness and tortuousness (the outline along the edge of a spot) to their offspring. Photograph by Sergio ...

Alan Turing, a renowned mathematician who invented modern computing, proposed more than 70 years ago that animals got their patterns through the production of chemical agents that would diffuse ...

New court documents obtained by News 2 outline the events that allowed the accused killer back on the streets. Days after Bricen Rivers was released, 22-year-old Lauren Johansen was found murdered ...

Effective camouflage renders a target indistinguishable from irrelevant background objects. Two interrelated but logically distinct mechanisms for this are background pattern matching (crypsis1,2 ...