Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

Skin bones, or osteoderms, have evolved independently multiple times across reptile lineages, a new study reveals.

A scan of a Rosenberg's goanna (Varanus rosenbergi) reveals chain mail-like osteoderms and the endoskeleton in the left half of the image. Roy Ebel Roughly 20 million years ago, monitor lizards, also ...

While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence in lizards and ...