Can a reptile compute? In one species of lizard, Timon lepidus, the colour and pattern of its scales evolve in a manner akin to a discrete rule-based computation called a cellular automaton. See ...

A decades-long scientific debate is finally resolved, thanks to a naked lizard. Scientists have uncovered the link between the hair of mammals, the feathers of birds and the scales of reptiles. And ...

In vertebrates, skin colour patterns emerge from nonlinear dynamical microscopic systems of cell interactions. Here we show that in ocellated lizards a quasi-hexagonal lattice of skin scales, rather ...

A feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak is helping shed new light on how reptile scales became bird feathers, according to scientists. Palaeontologists have now discovered the creature, often ...