Skin and color pattern of 125-million-year-old crocodile revealed by extraordinary fossil from the Pyrenees

A new study published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society describes, for the first time in detail, the soft tissues ...
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Hidden under rock for 125 million years, this crocodile’s skin was so well preserved that scientists can still study its details

A small crocodile-like reptile that lived 125 million years ago is giving scientists an unusually detailed glimpse of what ...
The Scientist

Mechanics, Not Genetics, Determine Crocodile Head Scale Patterns

Now, in a new study, Milinkovitch and his team reported that the polygonal head scales form due to the growth and compression of skin, which creates a self-organizing pattern of folds. 2 These ...
Nature

Reply to: ‘Reconstructed evolutionary patterns from crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate the impact of failure to log-transform body size data’

Our analysis has a number of features that distinguish it from previous publications. Our phylogenetic tree incorporates molecular data, causing substantive changes to the topology of the crocodile ...