A new secretive species of hermit crab living in crevices shared with moray eels and flaming reef lobsters, has been discovered in the southern Caribbean. The striped color pattern reminded the author ...

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 ...

Zebrafish are one of the most well studied animals on the planet. But how they came by their beautiful black and gold stripes is more of a mystery. Our new research used mathematical modelling – and ...

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 ...

Imagine grasshoppers distributed evenly across a dry field. As the temperature rises, the grasshoppers start to sweat. The field catches fire in a few spots and starts to spread. But the perspiration ...