Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster
With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...
New Atlas6d
Plesiosaurs may have combined skin and scales for better swimming and feeding
You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...
Stylist2y
The new Eumelanin Human Skin Colour Scale will help women of colour receive accurate medical diagnoses and appropriate care
What is the Eumelanin Human Skin Colour scale? According to the BAD, the newly introduced Eumelanin Human Skin Colour Scale – named after the most common pigment found in the skin – is a 5 ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
Rare Fossil of 183-Million-Year-Old ‘Sea Monster’ Reveals Both Smooth and Scaly Skin
For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...
New Scientist on MSN7d
Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales
A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...
Hosted on MSN2mon
Mechanics, not just genetics, drive diversity in crocodile scales
The diversity of these head scales observed in ... "We saw that the embryo's skin folds abnormally and forms a labyrinthine network resembling the folds of the human brain. Amazingly, when these ...