After lowering themselves into a “vertical cave” in Indonesia, a team of cavers paused at a shallow pool. Floating inside was ...

Scaly skin can show up anywhere on the body ... dry areas that look like fish scales. Certain medicines or diseases, including kidney failure, some cancers, and HIV, can trigger it.

Fish are animals that live in water and breathe through their gills. Gills are like underwater lungs. They have scaly skin that helps them to move through the water and fins that help them swim.

The plesiosaur's smooth and hydrodynamic skin allowed it to swim efficiently to catch fish and other squid-like animals, but its scaly flippers likely helped them move across rough sea floors by ...

Unlike amphibians, reptiles breathe only through their lungs and have dry, scaly skin that prevents them from drying out ... like frogs who serve as a food source for many species of birds, fish, ...

The findings suggest that the distribution of smooth and scaly skin played an important role in plesiosaur locomotion. The hydrodynamic properties of smooth skin likely reduced drag, helping the ...

She has dry, scaly skin making her a reptile just like crocodiles ... reptiles that live on the land and in the water. They eat fish and other animals. There are many species of tortoise.

The plesiosaur's smooth and hydrodynamic skin allowed it to swim efficiently to catch fish and other squid-like animals, but its scaly flippers likely helped them move across rough sea floors by ...

The combination of scaly and smooth skin likely made the plesiosaur more ... The plesiosaur needed to swim smoothly to catch fish and squid, which the smooth body skin facilitated by providing ...