Researchers at the University of Geneva and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics studied the skin surface of African bush elephants ... “This beautiful fine pattern of millions of channels ...

Just like adaptive skin patterns in animals, when Turing patterns change – say from hexagons to stripes – this indicates underlying differences in chemical concentrations inside or outside the ...

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could ... In the skin of the developing African striped mice, those lily pads are like the ...

If you focus directly on the skin of an African elephant ... of wrinkles but rather an important pattern of intricate cracks that make it possible for animals to stay cool and protect themselves ...

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog colour patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals. The colours ...

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches ...

Cheetahs (pictured, an animal named George at Zoo Miami) are actually not closely related to big cats, and thus have different skin colors. However big cats, such as tigers, have skin patterns ...

Color patterns seen in fish and other animals evolved to serve various purposes. Lagunatic Photo/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...