This video shows the complex yet fascinating molting of a tarantula. Specifically, it captures a Brachypelma boehmei. Also ...

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A tarantula rests on its back in a nest of webbing, its legs periodically flexing. With excruciating slowness, the legs start to extend as a shiny bulge begins to erupt out of the spider's back.

just had to go ahead and shoot a time lapse of a tarantula shedding its exoskeleton, which apparently resembles something out of a horror movie and will most certainly haunt my dreams for nights to ...