The captain and crew of a commercial stone crab vessel were charged with illegally harvesting over 65 pounds of stone crab ...

When your body’s your weakness, adaptability becomes your skill tree. Hermit crabs dominate intertidal zones thanks to their “borrowed armor” strategy, using shells for protection, camouflage, and ...

Philosopher Jonah Branding’s “decision tree” explores a new road map for identifying consciousness in living things.

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A beach outing turned into a rare coastal spectacle when Michelle Canizalez of The Woodlands encountered a mass gathering of hermit crabs on the bayside of Galveston Island earlier this month. "I have ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A video showing hermit crabs unexpectedly crawling out of a bag of beach shells has stirred both shock and concern among millions of viewers on TikTok. The video, posted by @ryleeslappey, has amassed ...

Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases.The three suspects – Liao Zhibin, 24, ...