the.com/molt
the art of outgrowing your own skin and walking away unbothered
crab vulnerabilityFreshly molted crabs are soft, defenseless, and briefly edible as butter
snake eyewearSnakes shed their transparent eye caps with the skin
feather costMany birds can barely fly mid-molt, growing feathers is expensive
size limitInsects molt because their hard shell cannot stretch
lobster growthLobsters eat their old shells to recycle the calcium