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How crocodiles get their scale patterns (Hint: It's unlike other animals)

Many animals get their external marking—like, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. Scientists normally explain the spectacular ...
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Scientists found a repeating math pattern inside the human body

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...
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An anthropologist made a mammal 'monogamy scale'. Here's where humans rank.

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, although reproductive monogamy is not universal across our many cultures and ...
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How crocodiles get their scale patterns (Hint: It's unlike other animals)

Many animals get their external marking — such as, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. (Story aired on ATC on Dec. 11, 202.) We ...
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How crocodiles get their scale patterns (Hint: It's unlike other animals)

We pursue one of the mysteries of the incredible variety of animals that you find in nature. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports on a study in the journal Nature. JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Biologist Michel ...