For ages, wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival. Now, a powerful ...

Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

Many scientists, such as the late Stephen Jay Gould, to conclude that each group of living things evolves in its own idiosyncratic manner. But now biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have ...

This week’s Nature (April 12 issue) cover story introduces a study that explains the principle of pattern formation in the Jeweled Lacerta lizard using mathematics. Born with brownish spots on its ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The quest to understand pattern-forming biological systems has spanned more than half a century. It originated with the seminal ...