Crocodile Head Scales: The Summary Video

The movie summarizing our work on the mechanics of crocodile’s head skin folding is now available in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Spanish.

Check here our summary video in multiple languages:

• English version (12 min)
• English version (6 min)
• Chinese version
• Japanese version
• German version
• French version
• Spanish version

The original article is available here:

Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding
Gabriel N. Santos-Durán, Rory L. Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Grigorii Timin, Michel C. Milinkovitch
Nature 637, 375–383 (2025)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08268-1