Zebras’ black-and-white stripes are one of nature’s most distinctive patterns, sparking curiosity and debate for generations. But not many people know that these bold markings actually serve very ...

How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...

Amid that personal drama, he still found the time to publish a visionary paper on the mathematics of regularly repeating patterns in nature, which could be applied to the stripes on tigers and zebra ...