The head scales on these crocodiles were somewhere in between—partially polygonal and labyrinthine—a shape and size that resembled the scales of another species, the Caiman crocodile. The team also ...

When the treatment was stopped early enough, the skin partially relaxed back into smaller, more numerous scales resembling those of caimans. By speeding up epidermal growth, the researchers ...

Amazingly, when these EGF-treated crocodiles hatch, this brain-like folding has relaxed into a pattern of much smaller scales, comparable to those of another crocodilian species - the caiman ...