What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species ...

These crabs are very quarrelsome and will fight desperately, especially if two specimens be ejected from their habitation and one of the shells removed. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The vast majority of the items the researchers saw the hermit crabs using in the photographs were made of plastic Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge shells as armour for their bodies ...

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Researchers said they found 526 hermit crabs had been trapped inside one container An estimated 570,000 hermit crabs have been killed after being trapped in plastic debris, a new study has said.

It was an unusual discovery. As the mercury soared to triple digits last October in Yuma, Arizona, a hermit crab later named “Hermie” was found near a drip irrigation line in a state park—a victim of ...

One morning on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, photographer Steve Simonsen captures thousands of hermit crabs migrating Is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin the Future of Space Exploration? (01:11 ...

Shawn Miller of Make The Switch 4 Nature has made it his life’s mission to provide empty shells for the hermit crabs on the ...

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. -- Hermit crabs are common on Delmarva, often sold as a novelty at gift shops near the beach. One woman on Chincoteauge Island is looking to alter that mindset. Most people ...

Getty Images The coconut crab is a kind of carcinized hermit crab, a “land crab” that scuttles around remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean. It eats not only coconuts ...

The writer Sara Maitland has lived alone in rural Scotland for 20 years, often going days without communicating with the wider world. But far from being lonely, Sara revels in her reclusive ...