Wild Wonders Lobsters Grow Bigger By Shedding Their Tough Exoskeletons Posted: February 22, 2025 | Last updated: February 22, 2025 "ZooEarthTV brings you incredible animal interactions, amazing ...

Like animals with exoskeletons, or hard outer skeletons. During molting when an animal sheds its old skin or shell, these animals actually grow their new exoskeleton under their old one and then ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

This property originates from the formation of a cholesteric liquid crystal phase with an optically active, helical structure during chrysalis during exoskeleton formation and the solidification ...