You can see he doesn’t have space,” she explained in Spanish while holding up the crab still inside the pipe ... an appropriate-sized mollusk shell, which hermit crabs usually inhabit for ...

Hermit crabs have a curled tail with a hook that enables their bodies to fit inside these borrowed shells. Sometimes when a new shell turns up, hermit crabs will form a line, biggest to smallest ...

But as many try to find ways to deal with the growing trash that litter our shorelines, hermit crabs have taken to using the waste as homes, creating plastic shells from the waste we leave behind.

I was lucky enough to spend some time on a backcountry island a few years ago. There was a house, but it was pretty much off ...

Heartbreaking pictures show how hermit crabs have been forced to use plastic waste as shells. Driven by their ... up on the beaches of Washington, USA inside plastic waste which had been swept ...

But the tire’s recurve kept the crabs stuck inside. Many hermit crabs found inside the tires had damaged shells. “Trapped in an environment with poor resources like the tire’s interior ...