If you’re ophidiophobic, this video may have you crawling right out of your skin…but isn’t it fascinating to watch a snake shed? Each time a snake molts a new, fresh layer of scales it develops between the old layer and the snake’s actual skin. As shedding draws near a thin layer of lubricating fluid builds up between the layers. When ready to shed its scales, the snake pushes up against a nearby anchor, like a rock or log, and slowly peels that shed off in one long piece, inverted just like a l