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The majority of terrestrial hermit crab species worldwide have used trash as shells, according to a study by experts at two Polish universities to be published next month. The study analyzed ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

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 ...

Hermit crabs are famous for being small critters that, from time to time throughout their lives, abandon one shell carried on their back to pick up a new one. Project HERMITS by [Ken Nakagaki] is ...

Kenneth Lonergan explores the emptiness of celebrity in “Hold On to Me Darling,” while Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” proves as moving as ever. “Dear Dickhead” is set in the messy ...

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 ...

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating ...

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 Trustees of the Natural History Museum A bottle on a littered beach with shells from hermit crabs that were trapped inside The researchers counted how many hazardous containers there were and ...

Scientists build clever contraptions to study animal behavior like the hermit crab housing market. In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth ...