This is the story of the green-eyed hermit crab, and it's coat of many creatures. Most hermit crabs live in shells not of their own making, taking the cast-offs of clams, shellfish and the like.

'Green-eyed hermit crab' is the common name for a new species recently discovered off the West Coast of South Africa. ... Cranky crabs in broken shells often have the upper claw in fights. May 4, ...

I only knew three. Now, every time I pass a tide pool, I stop and search for a little green crab with hairy legs. Its common name is the hairy hermit crab. When I find one, though, I’ll call it ...

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 ...

Hermit crabs are a decapod crustacean, meaning they have 10 (deca-) legs (pods) along with a hardened exoskeleton or shell. There are about 800 species worldwide with 11 found in Florida.

A growing hermit crab is always on the lookout for a bigger shell, and when an appropriately sized shelter isn't readily available, these crustaceans sometimes have to make do with whatever debris ...

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs, and broken glass bottles as shelters instead of shells. Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying ...

Hermit crabs are not, in fact, hermitical: they’re sociable, often climbing on top of one another to sleep in great piles, and their group behaviour is so intricately ordered that they make the ...

Plastic can be dangerous for hermit crabs. A 2019 study of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, found that over half a million of the islands’ hermit ...

The Green-eyed hermit crab is a new species recently discovered off the West Coast of South Africa. ... As the hermit crab grows, its live 'shell', or carcinoecia, grows with it." ...

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 ...