The remarkably tough scales of a huge air-breathing fresh water fish in the Amazon Basin named "Arapaima gigas" were the subject of a recent study led by Robert Ritchie of Berkeley Lab's Materials ...
The sturdy armor of the dragon fish (Polypterus senegalus) has kept this tough, ancient species going for 96 million years – since the Cretaceous! Each scale that covers its long body has multiple ...
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More than 6,000 "fish-scale" armor plates and weapons were found when archaeologists excavated a Western Han armory
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 ...
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