An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

All animals, including humans ... and six legs. They also have an exoskeleton and two antennae. The first stage of butterfly life is the ovum or egg. These shells are tiny and can be cylindrical ...

Invertebrates are animals that don't have a backbone ... have a hard outer casing called an exoskeleton. This protects their body a bit like a suit of armour. Vertebrates have a backbone inside ...

The hard exoskeleton makes it extremely difficult ... reasons for loss of contact with a tagged individual. In larger animals, failure of biotelemetry radio transmitters may be caused by battery ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.