Why do leopards have spots and zebras have stripes? Many biologists have tried to answer these questions and have provided interesting hypotheses, including camouflage, thermoregulation, and insect ...

A species of crab can learn to navigate a maze and still remember it up to two weeks later. The discovery demonstrates that crustaceans, which include crabs, lobsters and shrimp, have the cognitive ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they can ...

A new theory enables the simulation of complex pattern formation in biological systems across different spatial and temporal scales. For many processes important for life such as cell division, cell ...

"The process is complicated and it has been unclear how the flies could create a complex pattern from these four directions of motion," said Dr. Miriam Henning from Professor Marion Silies' group. The ...