The caiman’s skin is also somewhat of a cross between the two: Crocodiles have rough skin with more pronounced bony plates, ...
A luxury handbag designer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for illegally importing bags into the US made out of the pelts of protected species. Nancy Gonzalez, the 71-year-old founder of ...
This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...