After observing many of the outside traits of our fetal pig, we were now ready to really look beneath the skin. The skinning lab is very important because it is the layer that covers much of the muscular system that we wanted to observe. By removing the skin by pulling and cutting, we would then increase our knowledge by getting our hands dirty and internally observing the pig. Under the skin, we would be able to view some of the many muscles that we learned in the past chapters.