Unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin, it is probably as bad as it sounds. Falklands Conservation recalls that every penguin must moult ...

Uca pugnax says, "On guard blasphemer!" Image from fiddlercrab.info. Everyone knows that all crabs moult. Its no secret. When you wear you skeleton on the outside, its difficult to find the room to ...

Xu et al. 1 interpret the juvenile Similicaudipteryx tail feathers as examples of “proximately ribbon-like pennaceous feathers” (PRPFs) that have evolved convergently in avialian confuciusornithids ...

Because feathers become continually worn down, birds regularly renew their plumage. When moulting, the flying ability of some animals can either be reduced or totally impaired, and they are less ...

Until now, the existence of ecdysis (moulting) in early arthropods has been based solely on inference. Here we describe a 505-million-year-old specimen of the Cambrian soft-bodied arthropod Marrella ...

In this film that's not for arachnophobes, a fearsome creature goes through a natural growing phase that looks out of this world This incredible footage shows what happens when a large, hairy ...

People are being warned to stay away as elephant seals haul themselves out of the ocean and onto beaches — sometimes in very public areas — to suffer through a natural process called catastrophic ...

Arthropod animals were moulting to make room for growth more than 500 million years ago, fossil evidence confirms. Scientists have long believed these creatures shed their hard, outer layers, just ...

A passing wave of Atlantic drizzle and sea fog envelops the hillside for half a day, deepening the acre’s silence and muffling the drips from a billion leaves. If any birds are flying, I can’t see ...

"I just can't win", the lady told me. "One of my friends has a Golden Retriever, and the furniture and carpets in her house are light coloured." Her dog moults, but the light coloured fur is invisible ...

Dean Semmens receives funding from a PhD studentship at Queen Mary University of London. The work was also supported by a Company of Biologists (Journal of Experimental Biology) Travelling Fellowship ...