Normally in the United States the animal that you would see that's skin keeps its body from drying out would be the snake and the alligator .
Well...... reptiles also have watertight skin so that kind of says why they have scaly skin. This skin keeps their body from drying out in the sun.
veins
Most bony fishes have scaly covering on body as Labeo .
a body preserved by drying
A scaly skin.
a Snake.
Basically, a mummy.
Just like all sea mammals, a layer of blubber (fat) keeps the animal warm. This serves as insulation, trapping the animal's body heat inside.
A placental mammal.
Like all reptiles, rattlesnakes have a body covering of scaly skin.
They have hard scaly skin, that protects them from predators.
some fish and some reptiles