March 3rd, 2013
Our work on the development of crocodile head scales covered by the BBC, ScienceNOW, The Node, and many more in English, French, Russian, …
Read the article in the journal 'Science'.
- BBC Nature - Crocodile head scales result from cracking
- Scitechdaily - Lines on Crocodiles’ Crania Are Cracks in Skin, Not Scales
- Science reporting for kids - Cracked skin and crocodile scales
- Phys.org - Researchers find scales on crocodile heads are formed from cracks not genetically defined
- RealClearScience - Why Are Crocodiles so Ugly? (note that we disagree with that statement ;-)
- Daily News of open water swimming - It's All A Croc
- The Node (community site for developmental biologists) - Crocodile heads teach us a cracking lesson
- Tribune de Genève - La peau du croco craque (en Français)
- Le Monde - De l'influence du stress mécanique sur la peau des crocodiles (en Français)
- La Provence - L'homme qui étudie les secrets des crocodiles (en Français)
- Midi Libre - Les crocodiles pour aider à comprendre le vieillissement (en Français)
- Le Dauphiné Libéré - L’antirides de demain grâce aux crocodiles de Pierrelatte ? (en Français)
- Forskning - Krokodillesmilet sprekker (in Norvegian)
- вести - Зоологи нашли объяснение устрашающему рисунку на морде крокодилов (in Russian)