If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the U.K. coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny ...

Worth checking out. Florida Marine Research Hermit Crab Food. What you need to know: This powdered food contains high-quality ingredients and is easy to add to fresh leafy greens and fruits. What ...

Hermit crab housing. Hermit crabs do best in closed glass tanks. Since they’re tropical creatures, their space needs to stay moderately warm—between 72 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal.

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 ...

Revealing Video Captures Rare Moment Hermit Crab Changes Shells and Unveils Its Hidden Lower Body Angela Sayre, the founder of Crustacean Plantation, a nonprofit dedicated to crab conservation and ...

Male hermit crabs evolved larger sex organs to avoid losing homes. A study suggests hermit crabs with more valuable, easily stolen shells have evolved larger penises to more safely mate.

This is our 21-year-old hermit crab, Leonardo Da Pinci, known affectionately as Crab-alicious, or just plain Crabby. Our daughter got Leonardo and a friend for her 9th birthday and I’ve been ...

On the morning of April 24 during the spring school break, young visitors to the Westfield Athenaeum were invited to learn about and interact with Pagoo and his hermit crab friends on a habitat ...

In one local species of hermit crab, tiny hair-like structures – otherwise known as sensilla – on the claws appear to be important in gathering information about their surroundings, including ...