In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin ...

Learn about the unique way turtles create their scales and how it's revealing an ancient evolutionary link to dinosaurs, ...

"There are thousands of scales ... the best suggestion as to what this dinosaur really looked like." The modeling process yielded a top-down, dark-light pattern -- a pattern that would have ...

And experts believe they were made by the same animal. The 'rose' pattern of the scales is characteristic of certain dinosaurs, said the researchers, who describe their find in the journal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing ... Manning said there is a pattern of banding to the larger and smaller scales on the skin. Because it has been ...

For some dinosaur species ... Researchers also noticed some of the scales along the tail of Mongolian Saurolophus are arranged in a striped pattern, whereas, in the Albertan species, they are ...