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August 8, 2012 02:34 pm PDT
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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 [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GmQng8xxjPY/watch-a-spider-molt.html
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