Comments on: Crocodile faces are more sensitive than human fingertips http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/08/crocodile-faces-are-more-sensitive-than-human-fingertips/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Winterwind http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/08/crocodile-faces-are-more-sensitive-than-human-fingertips/#comment-16371 Winterwind Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:19:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7924#comment-16371 Awesome. I want to have a poke at a crocodile's face now. (A baby one). Awesome. I want to have a poke at a crocodile’s face now. (A baby one).

]]> By: Brian the Tall http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/08/crocodile-faces-are-more-sensitive-than-human-fingertips/#comment-16370 Brian the Tall Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:55:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7924#comment-16370 Cool stuff. Another idea as to why the ISOs exist all over the body could be developmental; the genes that control skin/scale formation could code for ISOs and the whole croc is patterned that way because they're selective when combined with the extra nerve endings in the face. Cool stuff.

Another idea as to why the ISOs exist all over the body could be developmental; the genes that control skin/scale formation could code for ISOs and the whole croc is patterned that way because they’re selective when combined with the extra nerve endings in the face.

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