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Moulting or ecdysis mean to replace old exo skeleton or upper shell and form a new one generally insects reptiles and some shelled animals nder go moulting because they cant grow under the same shell foreever in order to grow bigger they had to shed old shell. One example of an animal is a mealworm or beetle.

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