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 ...

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

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

However, it remains unclear what drives and regulates the global patterns of color variation over a long time scale. A research team studied 10,638 images of 1,249 species of scaled reptiles to ...