exoskeleton: Quick Facts

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A newly emerged cicada hangs upside down from its brown exoskeleton on a branch, with its soft, pale green body still unfolding during the final molting stage.

meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Arthropod integument

Examine the differences in structure and function of endoskeletons and exoskeletons

Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton

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