It’s not surprising to learn that hermit crabs live their happiest lives when they’re in habitats that closely mimic their ...

They are then packaged and transported potentially thousands of miles away for resale to live, often quite briefly, behind the plastic walls of an aquarium tank. There are no reliable statistics on ...

Researchers said they found 526 hermit crabs had been trapped inside one container An estimated 570,000 hermit crabs have been killed after being trapped in plastic debris, a new study has said.

What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species ...

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 ...