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 ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the scales on the rest of their bodies ...

Primates, including humans, instinctively fear snakes due to their scales, not their unsettling, slithering movements, Nagoya ...

Many animals get their external marking -- such as, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. (Story aired on ATC on Dec. 11, 202.) ...

MICHEL MILINKOVITCH: Just looking at the animal from up close, I was just so surprised by the pattern of very irregular scales on the head of the animal - very different on the left and on the right.