When walking into a beach store, it’s hard to not stop and admire the hermit crabs crawling around in their environment. The crabs may have a shell painted to look like beloved cartoon characters, ...

When hermit crabs do battle, they rap aggressively on each other’s shells, relentlessly beating on each other until one admits defeat and is ousted from its shell for good. It’s brutal, aggressive, ...

Even with a slightly askew SpongeBob SquarePants on its shell, a hermit crab climbing the wire cage in front of a T-shirt shop is symbolic of the Jersey Shore. Despite a track record as short-lived ...

If you are the curious type that likes to hop over tide pools and investigate puka, why not pause for a moment and take a deeper look into what you may find. There are many living animals you may not ...

Whether kept as pets or spotted along a seashore, hermit crabs are a familiar sight. These small crustaceans are known for carrying shells on their backs as a form of protection and camouflage. But, ...

The distribution of shells in one population of hermit crabs matched how wealth is shared in some human societies. By Elizabeth Preston Hermit crabs face a uniquely competitive real estate market.

Did you know that terrestrial hermit crabs socialize with each other? According to a recent study at the University of California at Berkeley, researchers discovered that hermit crabs congregate ...

About this time two years ago, we looked at the efforts of Miles Lightwood and the Thingiverse community to 3D print shells for hermit crabs, but Tokyo-born artist Aki Inomata has been creating ...

Hermit crabs are small crabs that carry shells on their backs, both for a home and for safety. But with shells being harder to find year after year, hermit crabs have had to spend more time in shells ...

While plastic pollution has longed plagued marine life, there's one species that isn't feeling so crabby upon seeing it. A team of researchers from the University of Hull in England was examining the ...

Hermit crabs are finding their way into discarded tires in the ocean – and they can’t get out, a new study from Hirosaki University found. The concave interior of a car tire can trap hermit crabs that ...