A thieving hermit crab was caught on camera trying to steal the shell of a fellow crustacean. The marine creatures use sea shells to protect their soft tails, as they do not have a hard exoskeleton ...

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 ...

More than half a million hermit crabs have been killed after becoming trapped by plastic pollution on two remote islands, a new study from the University of Tasmania found.

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.

Shocking pictures have revealed Hermit crabs are increasingly turning to plastic waste as armour for their bodies amid record levels of pollution in the world’s oceans. The findings are based on ...

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.

The temperamental White-Spotted Hermit Crab - called Hulk - has been given several shells by his carers but has either ditched or smashed them at his home in the National Marine Aquarium.

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 ...