Angela Sayre, the founder of Crustacean Plantation, shared a video of a hermit crab changing shells in Florida to help raise awareness about shell shortages.

Setting up a natural enclosure helps hermit crabs stay healthy ... Hermit crabs need a varied diet and access to spare shells ...

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.

Imagine wandering through a tide pool, your eyes tracing the mysterious shapes hidden in the sand and seaweed. Suddenly, a ...

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 ...

This hermit crab wanders along a Puerto Rico beach with none other than a Lego-like brick as his shell. Produced by Jason Gaines. Video courtesy of Associated Press. Follow BI Video: On Facebook ...

Once captured and sold in urban markets, hermit crabs often lose their natural shells, making it nearly impossible for them to return to the wild. Those used as fishing bait have their shells broken, ...