Ancient skin Scientists have been able to detect for the first time a clear "skin" pattern from a 50-million-year-old reptile, using non-invasive infrared and synchrotron technology. The findings are ...
In vertebrates, skin colour patterns emerge from nonlinear dynamical microscopic systems of cell interactions. Here we show that in ocellated lizards a quasi-hexagonal lattice of skin scales, rather ...
The Lower Permian Richards Spur locality is the most speciose Paleozoic continental vertebrate assemblage currently known, and a significant proportion of the tetrapod diversity found at the locality ...