On the subject of zombies

[Valase]

There was a lenghy discussion in an other topic that touched shortly on the existence of Skeletal Zombies.
Here is a quick quotes out of it:

@spicyshadow

as for skeletons, they are not actual skeletons they are zombies whose skin has turned to bone so they do have muscels and organs to keep them moving, […]

And the last post of that topic sums it up quite nicely:

How much damage prevents revivecation

Going by the official lore, and the fact that damaged Z variants (brainless, scorched, crawling) have at least a reasonable amount of tissue (particularly muscle) remaining - I’d say only serious structural damage prevents revivification. “Skeletons” are covered in a bony carapace, they’re not actually walking bones. Blob can repair soft tissue very easily, miraculously so. However, it doesn’t seem to be capable of reconstructing a body from scratch. So stripping flesh from bone (butchering) mak…