When walking into a beach store, it’s hard to not stop and admire the hermit crabs crawling around in their environment. The crabs may have a shell painted to look like beloved cartoon characters, ...

When hermit crabs do battle, they rap aggressively on each other’s shells, relentlessly beating on each other until one admits defeat and is ousted from its shell for good. It’s brutal, aggressive, ...

If you’ve ever picked up a shell from a beach in Costa Rica, you may have found it was already occupied. Millions of hermit crabs inhabit Costa Rica’s shores and tend to quickly scoop up the limited ...

Scientific divers have navigated a series of treacherous dives more than 330 feet deep in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of deep ocean reefs. They’re finding new species — and evidence of both cl ...

If you are the curious type that likes to hop over tide pools and investigate puka, why not pause for a moment and take a deeper look into what you may find. There are many living animals you may not ...

Even with a slightly askew SpongeBob SquarePants on its shell, a hermit crab climbing the wire cage in front of a T-shirt shop is symbolic of the Jersey Shore. Despite a track record as short-lived ...

Did you know that terrestrial hermit crabs socialize with each other? According to a recent study at the University of California at Berkeley, researchers discovered that hermit crabs congregate ...

Hermit crabs are famous for making a home of anything even remotely shell-like: old cans, shoes, toy buckets, and so-on. They’re the trailer trash of the crustacean world. Japanese artist Aki Inomata ...

The distribution of shells in one population of hermit crabs matched how wealth is shared in some human societies. By Elizabeth Preston Hermit crabs face a uniquely competitive real estate market.