Molted

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of molt form-of, participle, past

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castecdysisexuviatemoltingmoultmoult

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"Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind."

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