Because feathers become continually worn down, birds regularly renew their plumage. When moulting, the flying ability of some animals can either be reduced or totally impaired, and they are less ...

Arthropod animals were moulting to make room for growth more than 500 million years ago, fossil evidence confirms. Scientists have long believed these creatures shed their hard, outer layers, just ...

Uca pugnax says, "On guard blasphemer!" Image from fiddlercrab.info. Everyone knows that all crabs moult. Its no secret. When you wear you skeleton on the outside, its difficult to find the room to ...

Elephant seals are going through their catastrophic moults and this young seal picked the Campbell River waterfront for the task of shedding its old skin and fur. JOHN DACOMBE People are being warned ...

Unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin, it is probably as bad as it sounds. Falklands Conservation recalls that every penguin must moult ...

A passing wave of Atlantic drizzle and sea fog envelops the hillside for half a day, deepening the acre’s silence and muffling the drips from a billion leaves. If any birds are flying, I can’t see ...

Dean Semmens receives funding from a PhD studentship at Queen Mary University of London. The work was also supported by a Company of Biologists (Journal of Experimental Biology) Travelling Fellowship ...

"I just can't win", the lady told me. "One of my friends has a Golden Retriever, and the furniture and carpets in her house are light coloured." Her dog moults, but the light coloured fur is invisible ...

Writer and director Sabrina Mertens’ feature film debut Time Of Moulting isn’t your typical coming-of-age horror film. This isn’t kids on bikes riding through neighborhoods searching for a monster ...