If you've ever had skin resembling fish scales, there could be several reasons behind it. Scaly skin is often characterised by skin that begins drying, cracking, and then flaking.

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.

Scaling skin, or scaly skin, occurs when the outer layer of your skin peels away in large pieces that resemble fish scales. It can happen due to allergies, infections, or skin conditions like ...

Salmon skin (just like salmon itself) is packed with nutrients like vitamin B and omega-3 fatty acids, but eating the scaly ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The result is redness, inflammation, and dry, scaly patches of skin that can cover almost any part of your body. The use of omega-3s can make this inflammation more manageable and less irritating.

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 ...

An artist's illustration of a plesiosaur, based on new research that finds these now-extinct sea monsters had both smooth and scaly skin. Joschua Knüppe Plesiosaurs were long-necked reptiles that ...