Spider Crab Sheds Skin, page 1

Ok this has to be one of the most craziest things I have ever seen. Ok I am lying people but its still weird. If this was my spider crab it would have done it while I was sleeping. Enjoy.

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S&F for you! Thanks for posting one of the most interesting videos I have seen for a long time. I must say though, it looks extremely painful. I wonder if it is, or if this crab just has some extreme dexterity?

[edit on 28-7-2010 by TortoiseKweek]

i suppose it's just something we take for granted because we don't have exoskeletons, so we don't have to shed like that

my tarantula does the same thing per year, of course her exoskeleton is mainly built up on protein bonds, rather than the calcium build up that makes crustaceans exoskeletons, but the process is not much different i'm sure

you're right it is pretty weird, but it's absolutely amazing and beautiful when it happens, when any organism completes the process



here's one of a tarantula going through the same process (usually done upside down), not mine though just some youtuber



[edit on 7/29/2010 by indigothefish]

"Crab People!" "Crab People!"







[edit on 29-7-2010 by Point of No Return]

reply to post by kenny71

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So does this prove that multicellular mitosis could be true for some species way out there in space for asexual reproduction?

reply to post by kenny71

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S & F for that one. That was pretty cool. I'm a commercial fisherman and I've never seen anything like that before, Thanks.

reply to post by kenny71

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Nice find Kenny, thanks for sharing it!

S&F!

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