3. In addition to the axillary glands Schilbeodes gyrinus and S. nocutnus possess glands developed about the pectoral and dorsal spines. These are of the same type and structure as the axillary glands ...

As darkness settled over a forest of southern Vietnam, a “long”-limbed creature with “dagger-like spines” climbed ... found a dozen unfamiliar-looking lizards, the study said.

This is a skeleton of a Thomson's gazella with a flexible vertebral column, due to the short thorax, long lumbar region and the dorsal spines that are anteriorly backward pointing and posteriorly ...