For reptiles, crocodiles have some pretty distinct skin. Instead of the sleek and smooth scales on snakes and lizards , crocodiles have a more lumpy and three dimensional pattern on their scaly heads.

Scientists, however, have just proven that real crocodile skin—specifically the parts on the reptile’s head, snout and jaw—is much more special than previously thought.

This noise represents the crocodile attack. Cutting slits in the skin creates the scarring, he said. To keep the raised structure of the scar, clay and tree oil are added under the skin.

A British ‘danger tourist’ on a mission to visit every country has become the first tourist to visit several indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea.

Researchers have discovered a fossilized skin they say is the oldest on record. The crocodile-like skin, which is at least 286 million years old, was preserved in an ancient, infilled cave in ...

The fragment of fossilized reptile skin was found in a limestone cave in Oklahoma, United States, and is at least 130 million years older than the oldest previously known skin fossil.

DEEP within the jungle of Papua New Guinea there is an ancient initiation tradition that turns boys not into men, but into crocodiles. Here’s what we know about the extraordinary skin-cutting… ...

Aussie keen on PNG crocodile safaris. January 17, 2006 — 6.04am. ... help the PNG government by counting crocodiles and help the crocodile industry by teaching his skin-tanning and processing ...

THE limbs of an 11-year-old boy have been found inside a huge crocodile and his head discovered nearby after he was attacked in Papua New Guinea, a media report says.

The men of the Chambri tribe in the East Sepik province of PNG practise crocodile scarification, an initiation for boys entering manhood during which their skin is cut and scarred to represent the ...

A Nile crocodile. Leigh Bedford via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 We commonly refer to scaly, itchy skin rashes as “crocodile skin.” Scientists, however, have just proven that real ...

Fossilized, crocodile-like skin is oldest ever discovered, scientists say . The skin, which is at least 286 million years old, was found at a quarry and cave system called Richards Spur.