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University of Colorado-Boulder: How Animals Get Their Stripes and Spots
November 09, 2023
BOULDER, Colorado, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus issued the following news:

Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive.

Now engineers at CU Boulder have shown that the same physical process that helps remove dirt from laundry could play a role in how tropical fish get their colorful stripes and spots. Their . . .

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