Surprisingly, hermit crabs have adapted and are using things like bottle caps, light bulbs and plastic cups as shells. A recent study published in Science of The Total Environment found that this ...

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Soldier crabs are becoming increasingly rare in the capital. Instead of using shells for their homes, many are using garbage.

Those who remember their nature classes from school will recall that the hermit crab is a fascinating creature. A member of ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

The vast majority of the items the researchers saw the hermit crabs using in the photographs were made of plastic Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge shells as armour for their bodies ...

Scientists discovered a vibrant hermit crab with unique red claws and fascinating underwater sound-making ability.

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste ...

Hermit crabs are famous for being small critters that, from time to time throughout their lives, abandon one shell carried on their back to pick up a new one. Project HERMITS by [Ken Nakagaki] is ...

These crabs have an exoskeleton covering only the front part of their bodies, while their abdomens and tails remain soft and ...