Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales going back to ancient times: Romans, Egyptians, and other civilizations would dress their warriors in scale armor, providing both ...

Every tomb has a moment when the earth stops hiding what it guarded. At Jiangxi’s Haihunhou site, that moment arrived when conservators brushed aside the last packed layers of soil, and metal began to ...

Researchers from the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute in China have recovered the remains of a complex scale armor recovered from an over 2,000-year-old Han ...

When sea creatures first began crawling and slithering onto land about 385 million years ago, they carried with them their body armor: scales. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest land animals ...

Piranha have a well-earned reputation for being able and willing to eat just about anything in their path. One of the few exceptions is the Arapaima, a six-foot long, 300-pound Amazonian predator with ...

However, these materials have several drawbacks such as a lack of flexibility, high weight, and high energy consumption during processing. Several biological materials and structures that are found in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the world's largest freshwater fish is protected by the natural equivalent of a "bullet-proof vest," helping it thrive in the dangerous waters of the Amazon River basin ...

Speaking of scales, this giant fish has another superlative quality: “It has these very impressive armored scales on its body, which prevent penetration by predators teeth yet still makes the fish ...

Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales going back to ancient times: Romans, Egyptians, and other civilizations would dress their warriors in scale armor, providing both ...

High-tech imaging of carp scales by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals remarkable properties that could lead to advanced synthetic materials Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales ...