These are some truly one-of-a-kind spots. Black leopards are a rarity, and black leopards with visible spots are rarer still. So when 24-year-old photographer Anurag Gawande saw one such beautiful ...

From spots to splotches to stripes, cat coat patterns and colors all evolved to camouflage wild cats in their particular environments, according to a new study that finally answers the question: Why ...

Most people have heard the saying, “A leopard never changes its spots.” It means someone is resistant to changing something about themselves, just as a leopard can’t change its iconic black splotches.

Leopard spots are not uniform dots. In 1952, British mathematician Alan Turing hypothesized that as tissue develops, it generates chemical agents that move about, similar to how white milk spreads ...

Researchers have followed up on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale to investigate why some leopards got their spots — and why others are spotless. In one of his "Just-So Stories," Kipling suggested that ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...