Thousands of feet down in the East China Sea, a diamond-shaped sea creature with "prickles" on its "eyeball skin" swam ...

Dry and scaly skin on your feet is a sign of lack of moisture. Certain skin problems, wearing closed shoes for too long can ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding seven species of pangolin, which are sold for their scales and meat and may have played a role in the pandemic.

Cavers, scientists found silvery-white fish with skin instead of eyes and discovered new species: ... Klapanunggal blind cave barbs have scaly bodies reaching about 3 inches in length, ...

A genetic problem causes skin cells to build up, creating thick, dry areas that look like fish scales. Certain medicines or diseases, including kidney failure, some cancers, and HIV, can trigger it.

The results reveal an unusual combination of smooth and scaly skin on different parts of the body. The researchers believe this variation could be related to different functions. The plesiosaur needed ...

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 ...

Is it better to be smooth or to be scaly? For fossil plesiosaurs around 183 million years ago, the answer was a bit of both. Scrutinizing some of the first soft tissues from a fossil plesiosaur in a ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so ...