First, they tracked the evolution of the head scales during the embryonic development of the Nile crocodile, which lasts about 90 days in total. While the skin covering the jaws remains smooth ...

In the new study, the researchers first looked into how the head scales developed in an embryo. They imaged Nile crocodile embryos using light-sheet fluorescence microscopy over multiple days. What ...

"The patterning of irregular crocodile head scales provides a fascinating exception to this paradigm," the team explains in a video presenting the study's findings. Crocodile's head scales are ...

Previously, the team showed that the embryonic development of crocodile head scales, unlike scales of the body, originates from a process reminiscent of the propagation of cracks within a material ...

"The patterning of irregular crocodile head scales provides a fascinating exception to this paradigm," the team explains in a video presenting the study's findings. Crocodile's head scales are instead ...