While trying to rescue a hermit crab from its plastic home with a natural substitute, she had no clue what was about to ...

robbing these crabs of their potential homes. Most people don't realize that they are taking a potential home of a hermit ...

Empty mollusk shells are used by hermit crabs for tiny mobile homes. Now, carpenters based in a coastal area of Portugal have seemingly taken inspiration from these crustaceans to create a charming ...

One day in 2010, I was hiking along a forested trail in Okinawa, Japan, when a shiny object caught my eye. I couldn’t believe what I saw: A land hermit crab was crawling along the side of a tree, ...

Sometimes when a new shell turns up, hermit crabs will form a line, biggest to smallest, to see which animal fits the new shell. The next smallest will take that crab’s hand-me-down home ...

This stunning hermit crab has only returned to our southern shores in recent years. Let us hope it stays for good this time! This species has only relatively recently made a comeback to the UK after ...