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A goliath tarantula
gets rid of its old,
brown skin so it can
grow even bigger!
The spider
pumps itself
up to make the old Did You Know?
skin split open, revealing a Molting is difficult
new, soft skin underneath. for spiders, and they
Then it hauls itself out and sometimes lose legs in
pumps blood under the new the process. But this is no
skin to stretch it before it problem, because they
can grow new ones!
hardens. It does this up to
15 times in its life.
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