The surprising way crocodile scales form offers a glimpse into how evolution works beyond genes.

For reptiles, crocodiles have some pretty distinct skin. Instead of the sleek and smooth scales on snakes and lizards, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a juvenile marine crocodile in ...

Getting a detailed picture of what's going on inside a crocodile egg is no easy feat, but researchers from the Laboratory of ...

The scales on a crocodile’s head develop differently than those on its body. The explanation lies in tissue mechanics.

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

A groundbreaking study reveals that crocodile scale formation is driven by tissue mechanics rather than genetics.

How can the diversity of living organisms be explained? Although the answer that usually comes to mind is genetics, the truth ...

The laboratory of Michel Milinkovitch, professor in the Department of Genetics and Evolution at the UNIGE ... showed that the embryonic development of crocodile head scales, unlike scales of ...

How can we explain the morphological diversity of living organisms? Although genetics is the answer that typically springs to mind, it is not the only explanation. By combining observations of ...

Crocodile body scales develop from what scientists call a polka dot pattern of gene ... “Hence, one does not need to call for many genes being modified to explain the evolution of head scale patterns ...