When you think metamorphosis, you might think a beautiful butterfly coming out of its cocoon. However, lots of things metamorphose in much less graceful, much more sticky, gooey, unsettling, and potentially dangerous ways!
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uoc-sbb010308.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4460030.stm
Kind of gross but very cool, highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCo2uCLXvhk
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Cryptometamorphosis:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/science/snail-metamorphosis.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1099#sec-3
Figure from paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/attachment/12748a2e-c968-4fff-912a-9f9cd2c3d514/rspb20181099f01.gif
Wax moths and plastic:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441558
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grasshoppers/locusts:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57104/whats-difference-between-grasshoppers-and-locusts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-grasshoppers-go-bibl/
(includes picture) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/serotonin-makes-locusts-swarm