Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

American Historian

Molt signifies a recurring process for renewal in animals, hinting at natural cycles.

Cyclical Renewal

Molt is often used to describe a natural, biological process, not an artificial one.

Natural Phenomenon

Not all animals molt, so it's mainly used with birds, reptiles, and arthropods.

Specific Creatures

Animals undergo a molt at particular times, which can be seasonal or at growth stages.

Regular Intervals

During the molt, animals may require special care or conditions to help them.

Preparation Care

Use 'molt' in formal and scientific contexts, and 'shed' in informal or everyday language.

Synonym Use

 out along Mississippi's Coast and haul in special crab traps this is the front line and finding out what the oil is doing to blue crabs to try and find larval crabs particularly blue crabs they come in from offshore and when they're ready to molt they'll be looking

Oil Inside Gulf Crabs...

 habitat loss and pollution wild populations of blue crabs have plummeted over the last decade spelling disaster for the crabs and those rely on cloudy for a living Watson's theory is that crabs pulled from the wild population could be induced to molt year round

Soft-Shell Crabs Created...

 when fox cubs are born they are deaf blind and completely reliant on their mothers for everything so without a mother their care falls into the hands of the team when cubs first come into the world they have short black fur which they will begin to molt around

Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...

 At the same time, a second skin layer called the pupal cuticle forms underneath the first. One more molt exposes the hard exterior of the pupa. Besides the imaginal discs, only a few tissues are spared, including parts of the respiratory system,

The weird and wonderful...

 It's disheartening and disorienting. Now what? My data show we do two things during our time in the wilderness. First, we shed mindset, routines, habits. Like animals who molt, we cast off parts of our personality. Jeffrey Spar, who has OCD,

The Secret to Mastering...

 he's just doing a little bit of feather maintenance the shifting his feathers around running his ball through them as well it's important for birds constantly to be maintaining their feathers and I usually molt up to three times a year so

Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...

 a spider it's it's old skin so it melted now it's very important many different animals are chair molt we see a lizard's molting we see snakes molting we see lots of different insects molting and then of course the arachnids the spiders

Safari Live - Day 4 PIPE...

 you've spent the last 17 years of your life walking, eating and sleeping above a dormant army of insects. These are the cicadas. Every 17 years, billions of them emerge from the ground to do three molt, mate and die.

Cicadas: The dormant...

 puts on an instantaneous growth spurt while the new exoskeleton is still supple after an hour or two it will harden and no further growth will occur until the next molt

The Secret World of...

 Sure, they have to molt to grow, but that doesn't seem to pose a problem. The insects even invented the first wings, and conquered the skies.