The skin allows the armor to be flexible.
An armadillo.
A burrowing animal covered with bony plates that act as armor is called an armadillo. In Spanish, the word "armadillo" means "little armored one".
The name for the small mammal with bony armor plates is the armadillo.
So it can curl up in a ball to keep safe!
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The armor of an armadillo is made of bone covered in a layer of horn-like material.
The function of Stegosaurus's plates is not known. One theory is that the plates were a sort of armor, and that is why they are often called a Stegosaurus's armor.
Armadillo,turtles,crocs/gators, dinosaurs...
Both Ankylosaurus and Armadillo are covered in armor. Because of their armor, armadillos have few predators, and Ankylosaurus had none.
Armadillo shells provide them with some protection against predators.
There are 2 mammals with scales and the armadillo is one of them. "The armor is formed by plates of dermal bone covered in relatively small, overlapping epidermal scales called "scutes", composed of bone with a covering of horn." The other one is called a Pangolin.