A 60-year-old man requests consultation for severely dry skin. Examination reveals marked xerosis with a fish scale pattern of both lower legs.

This photo of fish scale-pattern imbrication of cedar shakes in Murren, Switzerland, really resembles its namesake. GREGORY J. SCOTT A closeup of the circa 1600 Nordic stave church in Oslo, Norway ...

The curling creates more fish-scale decorations. These microscopic fish-scale patterns tell the story of a rice plant that lived some 10,000 years ago.

A pattern began to emerge. The specimens from a few rivers in southern Africa, mostly caught in 2005, had a different scale pattern and “banded” coloring, the study said.

A pattern began to emerge. The specimens from a few rivers in southern Africa, mostly caught in 2005, had a different scale pattern and “banded” coloring, the study said.