While trying to rescue a hermit crab from its plastic home with a natural substitute, she had no clue what was about to ...

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Research on hermit crabs suggests these animals exhibit self-protective behaviors in response to injury. Hermit crabs will abandon their shells to avoid electric shocks, according to a 2016 study ...

The most adorable, silly-looking baby king crab, accidentally collected by NOAA researchers in the Gulf of Mexico, has ...

Either way, a steady diet can assist certain crab species in growing to incredible sizes. The biggest crab in the world, the Japanese spider crab, is capable of achieving a leg span of more than ...

Empty mollusk shells are used by hermit crabs for tiny mobile homes. Now, carpenters based in a coastal area of Portugal have seemingly taken inspiration from these crustaceans to create a charming ...

No Man's Sky newest content update Worlds 2 brings a plethora of new features, and improvements to the long-running space ...

The team was inspired by experiments that involved researchers electrocuting hermit crabs to see how much pain they were willing to endure before they left their shells. The same principle was ...

Meet the largest land-dwelling anthropoid: the coconut crab. This unique creature has developed some remarkable features and adaptations to survive in its terrestrial environment. It’s a genuinely ...