Researchers discover ultrathin lipid coating covering snakeskin
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 09:09
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany has discovered a very thin layer of fat covering the scales of a single species of snake. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the team describes how they studied the snakeskin and their views on what benefits the snake gets from the fatty outer scale layer.