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110 THE MIRACLE IN THE SPIDER
When their shells become too narrow for their growing bodies, so tarantulas have to
get rid of them. Adult tarantulas grow out of their rigid skin about once a year, rolling
over and struggling for hours, like a hand trying to wriggle free of a tight-fitting
glove. When the shell-shedding process is completed, the spider is renewed together
with all its systems and has a new shell with the same properties as the old one.
