The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic animal patterns thanks to differential equations ...

Back in 1952, Turing suggested that natural biological patterns like stripes or spots could form in the presence of two molecules: a slow-moving activator and a fast-moving inhibitor. The activator ...

Stripes also serve as a natural defense against biting insects, such as flies. Research shows that the high-contrast patterns ...

If a zebra zigs, will its stripes ... across natural backgrounds. The easy-to-catch critters disappear; the evasive ones reproduce. Eventually only the hardest-to-catch patterns remain.