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 ...

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 ...

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 majority of terrestrial hermit crab species worldwide have used trash as shells, according to a study by experts at two Polish universities to be published next month. The study analyzed ...

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 ...

The Trustees of the Natural History Museum A bottle on a littered beach with shells from hermit crabs that were trapped inside The researchers counted how many hazardous containers there were and ...

Introducing Strawberry Claws, a new-to-science species of hermit crab with the rosiest legs and ... they must go in search of their own shell and switch it up for a bigger one as they grow.

Hermit crabs use the empty shells of snails or hollow objects as shelter and a way to contain part of their bodies that don’t have a hard outer shell, according to Britannica. Because the most ...