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Impressive patterns that appear in animals, plants, and ecosystems

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.
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A simple mathematical model can account for lizard’s green-and-black pattern

Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...