If human skeletons turned to Jell-O every few months, we’d all collapse in a heap of useless, floppy limbs until our bones hardened again. When blue crabs shed their hard external skeletons, they’re ...

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CHAPEL HILL -- Working with blue crabs, biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered what may turn out to be a previously unrecognized, fundamental and widespread ...