In the damp warmth of a crocodile’s egg, something extraordinary unfolds. The tiny embryo’s face begins to ripple and fold in ...

These experiments, along with computer simulations that further confirmed the laboratory findings, revealed normal Nile ...

If you hear his story it's easy to understand why. Lucky is a pangolin -- a rare, scale-covered mammal, about the size of a house cat, that’s so bizarre it almost forces your brain to flip ...

The small animals, whose scales are coveted for use in Chinese medicine, are now among the world’s most trafficked mammals. A Temminck’s ground pangolin named Tamuda searches for a meal of ...

What developmental mechanisms ensure that some morphological traits (e.g., heart size in mammals) scale more or less isometrically to body size, while others (e.g., brain size) scale ...

Sometimes called scaly anteaters, they are the only mammals in the world to be covered in protective scales Their scales are made of keratin, the same material found in human fingernails Pangolins ...

If you hear his story it's easy to understand why. Lucky is a pangolin -- a rare, scale-covered mammal, about the size of a house cat, that’s so bizarre it almost forces your brain to flip ...