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Invertebrates
Invertebrates have their skeleton outside their bodies. This exoskeleton protects the animal like a suit of armour. However, it does not grow with the animal so it must produce a new one as it gets bigger, rather like a new set of clothes. A bronze bug has outgrown its old skeleton, so it wriggles out and waits for its new one to harden in the sun.
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