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, ...

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the UK coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny hermit crab scuttling about. What you might not realise is that hermit crabs are ...

Even with a slightly askew SpongeBob 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 pets, ...

The competitive dynamics of a three-species littoral hermit crab assemblage in Panama are demonstrated. Calcinus obscurus is found in the middle to low intertidal habitat, Clibanarius albidigitus ...

Haven’t you heard? Hermit crab populations are becoming increasingly homeless. Aki Inomata thinks they all deserve custom houses. Taiwan’s hermit crabs are in crisis. The little nomadic creatures have ...

WESTFIELD — On the morning of April 24 during the spring school break, young visitors to the Westfield Athenaeum were invited to learn about and interact with Pagoo and his hermit crab friends on a ...

For the first time ever, a hermit crab has been documented to have found its “forever” home. Off the coast of Japan, a new species of the crab has partnered with a living coral. The coral grows as the ...

Inomata starting thinking about the transitory habits of hermit crabs and their shells when the French Embassy moved in Tokyo and its land transitioned from French to Japanese ownership and then back ...