Two of my girls just finished shedding this week, and it got me to thinking about the process. Scales are essentially reptile hair, if I'm not mistaken. Every scale is individual and attached to the snakes dermal layer, right? So how is it that the shed can come of in one piece instead of thousands of scale sized pieces? At what point does the skin on the scale fuse to the surrounding ones, or do they?

This inquiring mind wants to know!