Hisham Abdel-Aal, PhD, an associate teaching professor at Drexel University has collected and studied more than 350 complete snake skins shed from 40 different species to generate the data that ...

the colour mainly stays on the snake, not the part it sheds. But every so often, the shed skin can show dark brownish black stripes or blotches, because of melanin in the scales. Since it’s made ...