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 ...

The alt 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 work of ...

Skin color patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among colored cells that obey equations, say investigators. Researchers report that a lizard acquires its adult skin color by ...