Horseshoe Crabs – 🦀🔄It’s Molting Szn! 🔄🦀 Horseshoe Crabs, like other arthropods, have a hard exoskeleton or shell outside of their body – But how do they grow if the shell remains rigid? Molting! As horseshoe crabs age and grow – they become too large for their rigid shell and must shed it to continue growing. Unlike other true crabs that molt by backing out of their shell, horseshoe crabs push forward and create a split in the front of their shell to wiggle out of. Each horseshoe crab will