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 ...

Tokyo: Three Chinese men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of protected hermit crabs inside, police said Thursday. A hotel worker in Amami ...

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 ...

They’re both grown up and out of the house, so we left our empty-ish nest, which still had two cats a dog and a vibrant and active bird feeder, to travel to a Caribbean island ... we watched an ...

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 ...

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