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The frigid Irish sea seems to have kept these scaly invaders at bay, since no one has ever found serpentine fossils in the country.
However, a study published this month in Current Biology has begun to unravel some of these scaly critters’ secrets.
These ancient deep-sea fish can live five times as long as biologists expected | Sara Kiley Watson | June 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhile lizards have dry, scaly skin, salamanders typically have to keep their skin moist, and some spend their entire lives in water.
Owning anything furry, scaly or feathery has always seemed to me like a lot of work, a lot of noise and a lot of mess.
I never liked animals. Then I got a pandemic pet bunny. | Sarah Garone | April 2, 2021 | Washington PostSince its founding in 2014, the rescue center has saved more than 1,300 pangolins and returned 60 percent of the scaly mammals to the wild.
A virtual menagerie: How conservation and rescue efforts can connect us with wildlife around the world | Andrea Sachs | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostEven bullets will fly off from any other part of the scaly covering as though they had struck against a stone wall.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton WadeIts scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair BlankSome have, indeed, confounded the scaly lizards of the East Indies with the armadillos of America.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonThe tail was covered with hair for two or three inches from the beginning, and the rest of it with a smooth scaly skin to the end.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonIndeed, you could as little get hold of Chopin as, to use L. Enault's expression, of the scaly back of a siren.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
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