Covering 320MYr of evolution, the ancestral character state of osteoderms (bony skin plates) in squamates was reconstructed, finding that they evolved several times in reptiles since the Late Jurassic & Early Cretaceous! Read more below (2/2)🌍🧪
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Lizards in chain mail: reconstructing the enigmatic past of dermal armour in squamate reptiles
Abstract. Osteoderms, bone plates in the skin, occur widely but inconsistently throughout the tetrapod tree of life. Their evolutionary history remains poo
