A TikToker with the username @noodlesma posted a video of a hermit crab moving into a new shell, and viewers weren’t shy about sharing their thoughts on the crab’s living circumstances. Moving can be ...

Sometimes when a new shell turns up, 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 are an excellent model organism to study because they behave in many different ways and those differences can be easily measured. Instead of continuously growing their own shell to ...

Turns out terrestrial hermit crabs or land hermit crabs face a shortage of snail shells, while ocean crabs enjoy an abundance of them, which is why land crabs have evolved in this new and ...

Hermit crabs in tide pools emerge from their shells By Susan Scott Jan. 31, 2011 COURTESY OF SUSAN SCOTT This hermit crab popped its blue eyes out of its shell to see what was going on.

But like a hermit crab encountering a humdrum shell, Laidre says he’s gonna leave that one alone. “For me, I’m much more curious about how forms of animal architecture and remodeling in the ...

Field studies have suggested that the intertidal hermit crabs of the San Juan Islands of Washington normally occupy snail shells smaller than preferred. In this study the effects of shell size on ...

They each hold the crab in front of them until one is wrenched from its shell, in which case they move up the pecking order into a larger home. Hermit crabs originally find shelter in the form of ...

Hermit crab gatherings may look like a funeral, but they have a selfish purpose. Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering ...

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 ...

Social networking helps hermit crabs find homes Date: April 28, 2010 Source: Tufts University Summary: Biologists have discovered that, contrary to their name, hermit crabs may locate new and ...