Sep. 1—Fur, feathers, scales and skin. Fluffy, velvety, sleek or scaly, students can learn to paint any animal they please after attending "Animal Painting in a Weekend" at the Harwood Art Center on ...

Michel Milinkovitch only bought the naked bearded dragon because he was curious. He had stumbled upon the unfortunate, odd-looking creature while visiting a reptile breeder. It was utterly scale-less, ...

Starting this weekend, the Academy of Natural Sciences will show off a diverse collection of pelts, scales and skins found across nature. "Skin," which will run at the museum from Saturday, June 24, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Turtles have roamed the Earth since the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago. A new study about their evolution, published in iScience, shows how the scales on turtles' heads can teach us more ...

Scales, spines, feathers and hair are examples of vertebrate skin appendages, which constitute a remarkably diverse group of micro-organs. Despite their natural multitude of forms, these appendages ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a rethink about the evolution of skin and its appendages such as feathers and hair ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By tweaking a specific gene, scientists have discovered a way to permanently transform the scales ...