Don’t let its small size fool you — the sargassum swimming crab is one of the most formidable predators in its habitat, Jace Tunnell writes.

Social media users were concerned by the scene in the viral clip, with one writing: "this is why we don't collect shells." ...

A hermit crab will change shells once it outgrows the current one it’s inhabiting. During a process called molting, which typically occurs once every 12 to 18 months for adult hermit crabs, but ...

Angela Sayre, the founder of Crustacean Plantation, a nonprofit dedicated to crab conservation and rehabilitation, captured the clip A hermit crab rescuer is sharing a rare look at the fascinating ...

The Caribbean has many big-name vacation destinations. Canouan is not one of them. Some trend-casters have hailed it as "the ...

but there are only a couple dozen species of land hermit crabs. In the Keys, as well as the rest of the Caribbean, we have the Caribbean Hermit Crab, sometimes called the Purple Pincher, the Tree Crab ...

and a roughskin dogfish caught on camera for the first time in the Caribbean Sea. In other crab news, a new hermit crabs species has been discovered: meet Strawberry Claws. The newfound spiny ...

This is our 21-year-old hermit crab, Leonardo Da Pinci, known affectionately as Crab-alicious, or just plain Crabby. Our daughter got Leonardo and a friend for her 9th birthday and I’ve been ...

Wearing shells painted in unnatural neon tones and housed within small wire cages, hermit crabs are commonly found in boardwalk shops down the shore — where they can face the same thoughtless ...

Manger said the hermit crabs he sells are caught in Central America near the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. This can include the Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize. Pet hermit crabs are wild because it ...

Wilmington College’s WAVE project, in which science students are sampling and testing water quality in local streams while seeking pollution mitigation measures, garnered a triad of major awards at ...