5 results for “skin”

1. Animals

   Reptiles and Amphibians

   skin stays thin and moist and must be kept that way, because they breathe partly through

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2. Animals

   The Octopus

   skin is packed with millions of tiny colour sacs, called chromatophores, each controlled by muscles that

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3. Animals

   Birds

   skin. A flight feather has a central shaft from which hundreds of barbs branch, and from

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4. Animals

   Mammals

   skin. They are a glimpse of what the earliest mammals were like. From the shadow of dinosaurs

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5. Animals

   Sharks

   skin is covered in tiny tooth-like scales that reduce drag so effectively that swimsuit designers

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