Fish-Scale Geckos Have Sheddable Armor (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Fish-Scale Geckos Have Sheddable Armor

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The delicate scales of fish-scale geckos easily shed when trouble looms but contain osteoderms, tough bony deposits.

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Frank Glaw

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