With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Run the blunt back side of the knife over the fish's body, starting from the tail and working towards the head. Keep the ...

When scraping, move from the tail down to the head ... (And don't forget the fish's belly, where there are small scales that also need to be removed!) To check that you've done a thorough job ...

White fish can be flat or round. Oily fish are round. To scale a fish, with the back of a knife scrap along the fish - tail to head. The scales will fly off so you need to wash you and the fish ...

These tiles may look like marble, but they’re made entirely of fish scales Fish waste like bones, heads, fins, and scales often end up in landfills. Erik de Laurens wants to change that ...

these are the gills of a slow-going rather than an active fish. The scales are hard, woven tight as armor, and rough to the touch. The roughness comes from tiny, tooth-like spikes called denticles ...

But that's what happened in 1938, when a South African museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer spied a bizarre creature with thick scales ... tail, amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish.