Romulus Whitaker

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

Indian Scientist

Use 'scaly' to stress the unique texture that resembles scales.

Texture emphasis

The term 'scaly' often relates to the visual pattern of overlapping pieces.

Visual appearance

Sometimes 'scaly' suggests unattractiveness or poor condition.

Negative association

'Scaly' can symbolize negative human traits, metaphorically linking them to reptiles.

Figurative use

Calling someone 'scaly' in a colloquial context may be considered rude or insulting.

Colloquial caution

In medical contexts, 'scaly' specifically refers to the pathological state of skin.

Medical specificity

Although 'scaly' suggests dry skin, medically it can appear with oily conditions too.

Not always dry

In medical talk, 'scaly' often accompanies terms like 'rash', 'dermatitis', or 'eczema'.

Context clues

 unraveled so they're very very scaly and you can see a long long long tail now that tail needs to be long one to balance them because they walk on their back legs only you see their front legs are carried forward almost like a t-rex and in this back tail will actually wrap around like we're seeing now to protect

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 deep-sea mining now that scientists know they're down there they can monitor them more effectively mining hasn't happened yet but we can see that if it does those animals are of the most vulnerable the things you find on the ocean floor aren't all as remarkable as the scaly

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 in mid-atlantic ridge just a couple of still photographs to show you some of this variety in the top left there are hundreds and hundreds of crown there's scaly foot gastropods mussels shrimp on the mid-atlantic ridge I want to talk a little bit about the shrimp they're

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 warm-blooded animals take a huge hit at this time the survivors that do get through produced this world of crocodile-like creatures there's no dinosaurs yet just the smo saurian scaly nasty swampy place with a couple of tiny mammals hiding in the fringes and there

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 his long sticky tongue flickering over the branches gathering the ants which swarmed everywhere not a particularly pleasant meal one would have thought but at least his hard scaly coat protects him from the worst of the his stings

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 Warm-blooded animals take a huge hit at this time. The survivors that do get through produce this world of crocodile-like creatures. There's no dinosaurs yet; just this slow, saurian, scaly, nasty,

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 they are individuals and to express it to the rest of the world by radically marking the visible parts of his body with pointed teeth green scaly skin and Teflon implants under his eyebrows Eric

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 spa treatment we mean the whole program sea salt scrub mud baths kelp wrap hydrotherapy and the world's longest deepest facial I mean there's rough scaly skin and

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 and four in asia pangolins are the world's only truly scaly mammals their scales just like human fingernails