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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

He compared hundreds of specimens of nine related species of hermit crab and showed that crustaceans that have more valuable shells have longer sexual tubes, helping them keep a grip on their homes ...

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, ...