As their name implies, the spotted eagle ray is covered in a spotted pattern and other markings across the top side of the body, making it unmistakable from any other species throughout its range, ...

There’s a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for inspiration. Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots, diamonds, chevrons, hexagons and even mazelike designs.

Miyazawa in Japan analyzed thousands of fish species for spotted and mazelike patterns. In fish families where there are species with both kinds of spotted patterns, there is often a labyrinthine ...