The stratum corneum is the top layer of your epidermis (skin). It protects your body from the environment and is constructed in a brick-and-mortar fashion to keep out bacterial and toxins.

armadillo have a single layer of skin on their backs, which is covered by the scales and osteoderms that form the animals' armor. Pink fairy armadillos are just 6 inches (15 centimeters) long and ...

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Pink fairy armadillos, which are just 6 inches long, appear to have evolved a strange double skin millions of years ago as they moved underground in response to the climate becoming more arid.