1. Museum graduate student Edward Stanley recently used high-resolution x-ray images of tiny “armor” bones to help an international team of scientists discover a new species of lizard from remote, war-torn mountains in Central Africa. This CT scan of Cordylus marunguensis shows the lizard’s osteoderms, tiny bony plates of armor in the animal’s scales. Read more here.  © AMNH/E. Stanley

    Museum graduate student Edward Stanley recently used high-resolution x-ray images of tiny “armor” bones to help an international team of scientists discover a new species of lizard from remote, war-torn mountains in Central Africa. This CT scan of Cordylus marunguensis shows the lizard’s osteoderms, tiny bony plates of armor in the animal’s scales. Read more here. 

    © AMNH/E. Stanley

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