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, ...

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 ...

Summer is definitely here! That means the beach, and the beach means the boardwalk. The boardwalk means tacky T-shirts ... and, of course, hermit crabs! Many parents can’t resist the call of the ...

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Emma takes one last look at the empty hermit crab cage. “I guess he really is gone then,” she says dejectedly. I think the moment is over, but my soon-to-be-4-year-old daughter is far from done. With ...

The majority of terrestrial hermit crab species worldwide have used trash as shells, according to a study by experts at two Polish universities to be published next month. The study analyzed publicly ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of hermit crab off the coast of Japan that roams the ocean floor with coral on its back. While most people think of coral as belonging to permanent reefs such ...