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 ...

Can a reptile compute? In one species of lizard, Timon lepidus, the colour and pattern of its scales evolve in a manner akin to a discrete rule-based computation called a cellular automaton.

Colour patterns aren’t rare in animals, but the ocellated lizard develops its labyrinthine palette in an unusual way. Researchers found that some scales on the lizard’s back change colour ...

The same is true for the labyrinthine patterns formed by the green or black scales of the ocellated lizard. A multidisciplinary team explains, thanks to a very simple mathematical equation ...

Researchers used a cellular automaton to simulate the adult lizard’s color-swapping scales (second clip), and re-create the labyrinthine patterns that develop on its skin. Senior physics writer ...

We took these designs from nature and optimized them,” said Ph.D. candidate Eric Chadwick at the University of Toronto. His lab’s working prototype of a hydrogen fuel cell, based on the finely ...

To understand why the pattern is forming at the level of scales, rather than at the level of biological cells, two PhD students, Liana Manukyan and Sophie Montandon, followed individual lizards ...

In fact, one overarching theory of how biological patterns form comes from ... s model also applied to how ocellated lizards change the color of their scales. Milinkovitch’s lab is interested ...

Long known to Filipino tribal hunters, the monitor lizard was identified as a new species in 2009 via its DNA, scale pattern, size, and peculiar penis, a new study says. At about six and a half ...