After years below ground, a cicada bursts from its exoskeleton in this remarkable video showing nature’s power to transform.

The number of animals with tough shells and exoskeletons exploded around 540 million years ago in the early Cambrian, probably in response … Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

Unlike the hard exoskeletons found in many of the Cambrian fossils, the animals that lived during the Ediacaran were mostly soft-bodied, blob-shaped animals like cnidarians — a group that ...

Discusses arthropods, a diverse group of animals characterized by jointed legs, exoskeletons, and segmented bodies. It ...

Watching a tarantula move can make a person's skin crawl -- especially when the arachnid is crawling out of its own skin. More accurately, tarantulas have what's known as an exoskeleton, the stiff ...

Simmer down now, Tony Stark, exoskeletons aren’t quite there. Yet. What’s an exoskeleton? Animals such as grasshoppers have skeletons on the outside of their bodies.

Any animal with an exoskeleton (outside skeleton made of chiton) must molt to grow. This is a laborious process and excruciatingly slow and dangerous. ...

This isn't my area of expertise, either, but it's a fun and interesting subject, so I'll speculate a bit. 1. Exoskeletons are heavy, even the lighter versions without calcium that insects have ...