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August 8, 2012 02:34 pm PDT

Watch a spider molt

Spider molting from Karli Larson on Vimeo. Spiders don't have an internal skeleton like we do. Instead, their muscles are anchored to an exoskeleton—a sort of hard, semi-flexible shell that encases a spider's whole body. In order to grow bigger, spiders have to grow new exoskeletons and shed old ones. Karli Larson found a spider [...]


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