Alligator skin is covered in osteoderms, or bony plates similar to a turtle’s shell, that act as bodily armor, alligator researcher Frank Mazzotti told CNN. Gator skulls are made of heavy ...

"The alligator was fully intact," Moore said Friday. "Just slight decay on the outer dermal layer. The osteoderms (the bony deposits on the skin) were completely intact!" The size of the gator ...

I love B-grade monster movies, and one of my all time favorites is the 1980 creature feature Alligator ... A few vertebrae and osteoderms (the bony components of the armor of crocodylians ...