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 ...

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

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 ...