From clouds and snow flakes, to crystals and blood vessels, approximate fractals are easily found in nature. Coined by french mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975, a "fractal" is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called "self-similarity". In the case of natural fractals, they display self-similar structure over an extended -but finite- scale range.
Meet some of the most beautiful fractals we've found in nature.
Peacock fractal
Coastline fractal
Coastline fractal in midwest USA
Snow flake fractal
Sea shell fractal
Sea urchin fractal
Fractal tree
Tree Leave fractal
Queen Anne's Lace fractal
Lightning fractal
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