How about shedding your skin and dissolving your own muscles? Now, believe it or not, that gruesome process is how caterpillars earn their wings. Here's what you might not know about what's inside ...

A caterpillar does this through a process that requires it to stop eating, hang itself upside down from a twig, wiggle from its skin underneath, and split itself open, shedding its former self.

The monarch caterpillar sheds its skin five times, molting as it grows. Not all monarchs migrate. A typical monarch life span (from egg to adult) is 2 to 6 weeks, but migrating monarchs live up to 9 ...

Few creatures capture the imagination like the Monarch Butterfly. With their vibrant orange wings, awe-inspiring migrations, ...

6 Their caterpillars should get bigger, and might even shed their skin. 7 After a while, they will turn into a chrysalis. They will look as if they are dead, but wait patiently. 8 One day each ...

The monarch caterpillar sheds its skin five times, molting as it grows. Not all monarchs migrate. A typical monarch life span (from egg to adult) is 2 to 6 weeks, but migrating monarchs live up to 9 ...