Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs, and broken glass bottles as shelters instead of shells. Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying ...

A hermit crab will change shells once it outgrows the current one it’s inhabiting. During a process called molting, which typically occurs once every 12 to 18 months for adult hermit crabs, but ...

As the crabs grow over the years, they seek out a succession of larger shells to move into. Australian scientists warned last year that plastic pollution was killing hermit crabs on a vast scale.

In hermit crab world, shells are a prized commodity. One that's worth fighting to the death for. Well, maybe not to the death. But it's still pretty violent by hermit crab standards.

A typical hermit crab that can’t find a larger shell to move into “really is in trouble.” D. heteropsammicola ’s relationship with walking corals may begin in a similar way as it does with ...

But like a hermit crab encountering a humdrum shell, Laidre says he’s gonna leave that one alone. “For me, I’m much more curious about how forms of animal architecture and remodeling in the ...