Tigers' enchanting stripe patterns and gorgeous fur are their downfall — poachers and illegal traders have pushed many tiger species to the brink of extinction, slaughtering them for their coveted ...

When tigers stalk their prey, usually in the murky light of dusk or dawn, they are nearly invisible. Whether they live in grasslands, forests or jungles, wild tigers have deep orange coats with dark ...

Some patterns arise simply or randomly, but others develop via complex, precise interactions of pattern-generating systems. Their beauty aside, the intricacies of these systems are inspiring the ...

Cell biologists have finally proved a 60-year-old theory about how certain animals get their stripes and blotches. The famously prolific mathematician Alan Turing had hypothesized that such biological ...

Why do tigers have orange and black stripes? asks students in Howard Cohen's class at Francis Lewis High School, in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Tigers are the biggest of the big cats; some can weigh more ...

From Simons Science News (find original story here). In 1952, Alan Turing, a British mathematician best known for his work on code-breaking and artificial intelligence, was convicted of engaging in ...

Black tigers, or melanistic tigers, are a rare genetic variation of the Bengal tiger species found primarily in India. The first scientific documentation of a black tiger was reported in 1990 from the ...