A friendly hermit crab pops out of his shell to say hello at Muirs Beach in Tasmania, Australia. Managing Director Susan Carins, said she and her three children regularly find hermit crabs in the ...

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 ... coming partly out of their shells so the male ...

A few weeks earlier and some 2,500 miles away in Ocean City, New Jersey, a young boy was seen with a single hermit crab purchased as a vacation souvenir from a local beach shop. This crab was a victim ...