A primordial developmental toolkit shared by all vertebrates, and described by a theory of the mathematician Alan Turing, sets the growth pattern for all types of skin structures. In 1952, well before ...

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Side view of a great white shark with highlighted skin sampling locations, showing detailed denticles captured by a microfocus X-ray CT scanner. New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could ...

Patterns are everywhere in nature, from the colors of Jupiter to a zebrafish’s stripes. Patterns even show up across very different animals. Scientists have long known that mammals’ hairs and birds’ ...

Magnified shark skin. Sappi North America has launched a “first of its kind” casting and release paper inspired by the texture of shark skin which will be made at Sappi's Westbrook mill. COURTESY / ...

A system proposed by world war two codebreaker Alan Turing more than 60 years ago can explain the patterning of tooth-like scales possessed by sharks, according to new research. A system proposed by ...