Source: Luc Hoogenstein, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Arthropods, including insects, spiders, and crustaceans, are covered by a hard exoskeleton that protects their ...

Marquise Meda is learning why animals shed their skin, feathers and fur at The Orlando Science Center. Marquise Meda is learning why animals shed their skin, feathers and fur at The Orlando Science ...

Learn about the wide-ranging Ecdysozoa group of animals and how scientists solved the curious case of their nervous systems' structure. With so many elusive creatures occupying the forgotten corners ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Molting of shore crabs (Hemigrapsus sanguineus) parasitized by rhizocephalans (Sacculina senta) was observed in the laboratory, and the growth ...

A tarantula rests on its back in a nest of webbing, its legs periodically flexing. With excruciating slowness, the legs start to extend as a shiny bulge begins to erupt out of the spider's back.

A new analysis of one of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever discovered has definitively sorted its head from its tail, and turned up a previously unknown ring of teeth, which could help answer some ...

VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — A rare sighting on Vashon Island has beachgoers talking after a massive elephant seal was spotted this week molting along one of the island’s popular beaches. Tramp Harbor, ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s animal welfare community has raised concerns about the practice of forced molting reportedly used by some farms to address the acute shortage of eggs. Egg farms in ...

Arthropods, including insects, spiders, and crustaceans, are covered by a hard exoskeleton that protects their soft innards and helps them get around. Molting, or shedding this shell, is necessary for ...