did you look at the size referance table?
in the skeleton template. it say it changes depanding on size.
following that and looking at the difrenace between an ogre and a skeleton ogre you'll notice that an ogre has 5 nat ac. but the skeleton of it only has +2, which looking at the table, mean the +2 nat armor listed for medium or large size has replaced the normal creature nat ac bonus.
can you name\link them?
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I think the skeletal template's listed natural armor replaces its natural armor bonus. If you look at other templates, such as the half-dragon template, it notes that the template improves the creatures natural armor, whereas the skeleton templates says changes to.
It might seem weird, but a commoner turned into a skeleton is slightly more dangerous than it was while alive; but a something like a dragon that is reanimated as a skeleton will usually be much, much weaker.
so?
some template change things while other improve.
if you think of nat ac as something mostly gained from hard skin and such. being a skeleton would mean loosing that, and only gainig the bones hardness .
so a farmer who has soft skin would get his ac higher a bit. while a dragon whos skin is said to be harder then steel would loose from being striped of it.
i asked for a to link a skeleton that doesn't go by the template, i couldn't find any.
summing it up. skeleton loose any nat ac he had from his race and replace it by the amount said in the skeleton template size table.