Despite the curb appeal of her creations, getting the hermit crabs to inhabit the stylish shells required clever urban planning from Inomata. "At first I thought hermit crabs could fit into any ...

In case it ever comes up in a Jeopardy Daily Double question, the fossil record does not contain many hermit crab fossils. That’s right, those cute little beasties, so abundant you can buy them in ...

The coconut crab is endemic to a variety of islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans, though its populations are extremely threatened on some of these thanks to, you guessed it, human tomfoolery ...

— -- Popular scuttling toy hermit crabs known as Xia-Xia pets can now be played with in a virtual world found on the Nintendo DS. These cute crabs, with interchangeable shells, star in a ...