A fitness instructor in Virginia who struggled with painful skin issues throughout her childhood and adolescent years said it wasn’t until she turned 18 that she learned why her skin had a thick ...

A toddler has a rare condition that makes his skin so dry it looks and feels like fish scales. Daniel Maples, who is 18 months old, was born with lamellar ichthyosis – which affects just one in ...

Among its scale-shedding brethren, however, G. megalepis’s scales are king. The oversized scales seem to come off at the slightest perturbation, leaving smooth, pink skin beneath. Advertisement ...

You might be under the impression that scaling a fish requires investing in special tools. Luckily, all you really need is a ...

Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales. PeerJ , 2017; 5: e2955 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2955 Cite This Page : ...

The new fish-scale gecko, Geckolepis megalepis, has the largest body scales of all geckos. (Image credit: Frank Glaw) G. megalepsis geckos are native to Madagascar, and measure up to 2.8 inches (7 ...

Usually scaled, the skin of fish can also be naked or made up of bony plates. Researchers have reconstructed the evolution of the skin structures in fish, going back to the common ancestor, more ...

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