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Harbor seal mothers prefer to rest on slower icebergs after giving birth and on faster ones during molting season.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Time isn’t just marching on—your civilization is about to molt, caterpillar-style.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
The chemical builds up in feathers that the birds regularly molt in large quantities.
—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Much of the stag beetle's lifecycle is spent underground as a white grub molting into larger and larger forms before hatching in two to three years during the summer.
—Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Time isn’t just marching on—your civilization is about to molt, caterpillar-style.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
The chemical builds up in feathers that the birds regularly molt in large quantities.
—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Much of the stag beetle's lifecycle is spent underground as a white grub molting into larger and larger forms before hatching in two to three years during the summer.
—Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Molt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molt. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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