hermit crabs will form a line, biggest to smallest, to see which animal fits the new shell. The next smallest will take that crab’s hand-me-down home, and so on. Hermit crabs vary in their ...

A few weeks earlier and some 2,500 miles away in Ocean City, New Jersey, a young boy was seen with a single hermit crab purchased as a vacation souvenir from a local beach shop. This crab was a victim ...

Before moving along, the hermit crab tests out its new mobile home, disappearing inside the shell ... "They're completely vulnerable without a proper home, so finding a good shell is critical to their ...