Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened

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When trouble looms, the fish-scale geckos of Madagascar resort to what might seem like an extreme form of self-defense -- tearing out of their own skin. Now, new research shows the geckos' skin contains a hidden strength: bony deposits known as osteoderms, the same material that makes up the tough scales and plates of crocodilians and armadillos. But the presence of osteoderms in fish-scale geckos raises a herpetological mystery: If they have armor, why do they discard it?
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Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened was originally posted by Health Nutrition And Fitness News