With its short, blunt snout and unique checkerboard pattern, this scaly creature — a skink — wasn’t like the other 35 related species that call the mountains home. The skink earned its name ...

This vegetable's tendency to produce buds at an accelerating rate causes this spiral pattern ... are woody, scaly fruits that dangle off evergreens and serve as the trees' seed-bearing organs.

rex family had no lips based on a wrinkle pattern on the skull that corresponds with scaly skin. “That wrinkly texture is also seen in crocodiles,” Carr said. “That texture in both crocs and ...