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. Research teams estimated ...

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 ...

Hermit crabs (Paguroidea; Latreille 1802) offer great opportunities to study animal behaviour and physiology. However, the animals’ size and sex cannot be determined when they are inside their shell; ...

“So, I never really thought I’d study penis size, but I sorta stumbled on this topic.” Mark Laidre, a biologist at Dartmouth College. Laidre travels to Costa Rica to study hermit crabs, a species ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. More than half a million hermit crabs have ...