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Watch a tarantula shed its old skin in an eerie timelapse video

Creepy, yet fascinating.

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Tarantula at Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati Zoo/PA)

A zoo has released a timelapse video of a tarantula moulting its skin and it’s pretty gory.

The video shows a Mexican red-kneed tarantula shedding and wriggling out of its exoskeleton.

Cincinnati Zoo posted the video, taken over seven hours and sped up, on its Facebook page.

They usually grow to a body size of around 5in.

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