Is it okay to eat fish with scales, and are there any benefits to consuming the scales? The answers to both may not be as ...

One of the most fascinating features of many fish is their scales. These tiny, often overlooked structures play a big role in ...

In a river of southern China, a “slender” creature with “tiny scales” under its skin paused to rest along the gravel riverbed. Its coloring helped it blend in, but not well enough. Nearby scientists ...

“Even these spines from this really odd, derived group of fishes, the pufferfish, still use the same set of genes that makes hair, feathers, fish scales, and shark dermal denticles.” Pufferfish belong ...