For the uninitiated, Crab Imperial is a classic Chesapeake dish – essentially the region’s answer to lobster thermidor – featuring sweet lump crabmeat bound in a delicate sauce, topped with a light ...

The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium, which expands the host hermit crab’s ...

One Reddit user's discovery at a local thrift store was disturbing, exposing the hermit crab trade and raising questions about the shop's ethics.

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 ...

A hermit crab will inspect a shell with care, running antennae and claws over its contours, before delicately lowering its rear end into the aperture. One researcher found that crabs actually remodel ...

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 ...

Most people think of hermit crabs as small beach dwellers that make good pets. Although they start small, hermit crabs can grow to a large size. In the wild, they can live more than thirty years. In ...