Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. The reason patterns often appear in nature ...

Stage 1 (before 1940s): The evolution of the water ecological pattern in the Yangtze River was primarily a natural process driven by the natural scouring and siltation of the river-lake system.

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...