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 ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

"When you descale a fish you will notice the skin becoming like a net," he said, "and the parts where the scales are attached are lighter in color and tend to snap easily." So what kinds of fish ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff fisheries specialists can help diagnose and prescribe solutions to disease outbreaks for both commercial fish producers and private waters. Commercial fish ...

Mid to late winter is a quiet time for ponds in Arkansas. Low temperatures keep warmwater fish species lethargic and feeding ...

Globally, the top three importers of fish scales are the United States, Ukraine, and Peru. The United States leads the world in fish scale imports with 2,184 shipments, followed by Ukraine with 953 ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...