"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 ...

It took the team over 10 years to gather a sufficient number of animals. In the new study, the researchers first looked into how the head scales developed in an embryo. They imaged Nile crocodile ...

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 ...

Getting a detailed picture of what's going on inside a crocodile egg is no easy feat, but researchers from the Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE) at the University of Geneva in ...

Scientists, however, have just proven that real crocodile skin—specifically the parts on the reptile’s head, snout and jaw—is much more special than previously thought. But unlike the hair ...