Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened

Friday, August 4, 2017 - 13:02 in Biology & Nature

When trouble looms, the fish-scale geckos of Madagascar resort to what might seem like an extreme form of self-defense — tearing out of their own skin. Their unusually large, overlapping scales flake off so easily ... Read more

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