Reptiles are fascinating creatures ... blue, and yellow scales, often with additional spots or stripes. These patterns are ...

Most vertebrate skin appendages—hair, feathers, and scales—develop in a pattern dictated by the interaction of functionally ... About a decade ago, Milinkovitch noticed that the scales on the ...

in this case derived from the keratin in the reptile skin, and image it on its own," he says. "When we do that, we see the typical scale pattern that everyone is familiar with in say, crocodile or ...

A unique diamondback rattlesnake was discovered near Scottsdale, Ariz., on Saturday, May 10. The snake bears a leopard print-like pattern on its scales, which experts say is a genetic mutation.

In reptiles, “albinism is one of the most striking aberrations of body color pattern” and results in ... The albino Achalinus sheni, or Shen’s odd-scale snake, seen from above (top) and ...

If the scales between the vent and the tail are single scales, the snake is locked and loaded with venom. But if there are ...

The CRISPR-edited reptiles are providing new insight ... how and why these "near-perfect hexagonal pattern[s]" developed on the dorsal scales located on the snakes' backs and flanks, but not ...

The team used the images to track the fates of about 5,000 hexagonal scales across the back of each reptile. As each lizard aged, the overall pattern on their backs went from brown with white ...

PARKERSBURG — Students at Camp Growl took a break from their reading and math instruction Thursday at Jefferson Elementary to meet and learn about some reptiles and bugs. Parkersburg High School ...