If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the U.K. coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny hermit crab scuttling about. What you might not realize is that hermit crabs are ...

The analysis revealed that the bolder hermit crabs have more sensilla located on the claw’s surface. Additionally, more sensilla appears to make the crab determine that the surrounding environment ...

A hermit crab will change shells once it outgrows the current one it’s inhabiting. During a process called molting, which typically occurs once every 12 to 18 months for adult hermit crabs, but ...

Revealing Video Captures Rare Moment Hermit Crab Changes Shells and Unveils Its Hidden Lower Body Angela Sayre, the founder of Crustacean Plantation, a nonprofit dedicated to crab conservation and ...

Plastic can be dangerous for hermit crabs. A 2019 study of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, found that over half a million of the islands’ hermit ...

Most hermit crabs you see are slowly suffocating to death," explains Porter. Native to the tropics and the Caribbean, Porter has no way to release them into the wild.

The staggering amount of plastic waste on the beaches of Henderson and Cocos Islands is well-documented, but Lavers says their research focused on its effect on hermit crabs is the first of its ...

A typical hermit crab that can’t find a larger shell to move into “really is in trouble.” D. heteropsammicola ’s relationship with walking corals may begin in a similar way as it does with ...

A new hermit crab species can live in a walking coral's cavity in a reciprocal relationship, replacing the usual marine worm partner, according to a study published September 20, 2017 in the open ...