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How the leopard really got its spots has finally been explained. The new work builds on research conducted by British mathematician Alan Turing in the 1950s. The new study by American scientists ...

Turing also turned his math skills to understanding how regular features could emerge on the developing embryo. Scientists since then have applied his equations to the development of such patterns as ...

(CNN) — The strikingly patterned ornate boxfish has no lack of detail when it comes to its hexagonal spots and keen stripes — the intricate markings are so sharp-edged in the species that it had ...