An urban legend came true for one woman, 64, who “had awoken to the feeling of a creature moving inside her left ear” Getty It sounds like a creepy Halloween tale. A small spider took up residence in ...

In a scene straight out of a horror movie, a woman had a spider nesting and shedding its exoskeleton inside her ear. The 64-year-old woman discovered the spidery squatter after going to the Tainan ...

At first glance, the spider in this Instagram video looks as if it is possessed, its body contorting, twisting, and splitting ...

When you’ve got a tough exterior, there’s only one way to grow: Shed your skin. Arthropods, the most abundant group of animals on Earth, all possess a hard outer covering called an exoskeleton, which ...

NORFOLK -- The pictures may creep you out, but they're fascinating to the folks at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. Cameras there caught one of the zoo's Goliath bird eating spiders molting. The ...

Dogs tilt their heads to see better. because their big noses block their vision. Humpback whales jump using their peduncle muscle. Spiders shed their old skin to grow bigger. Hippos sweat sunscreen ...

Male spider mites closely guard juvenile females and tear off their outer skin as soon as they approach maturity so they can be the first to mate with them. Two-spotted spider mites (Tetranychus ...

Caterpillars shed their skin several times as they grow, and in the final stage of metamorphosis, they form their pupa (chrysalis). As the warm summer and spring suns arrives, it signals a change in ...