They gathered almost 300 hermit crabs from a Long Island beach and briefly removed the crabs from their shells. They weighed and measured each crab and its residence.

According to a recent study from Beach.com, 93 percent off beachgoers claim "to practice good beach etiquette, yet almost everyone (92 percent) also admits to at least one bad beach habit." The study ...

FORT WALTON BEACH — Two hermit crabs evicted from a plane at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport last week have caught a new ride to Illinois. The crabs, named Spirit and Rainbow, belong to 7 ...

FOLLOW THE CROWD Within three minutes on a beach at Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, land hermit crabs (Coenobita compressus) crowd a tube containing flesh bits of their own kind. Researchers say the ...

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. -- Hermit crabs are common on Delmarva, often sold as a novelty at gift shops near the beach. One woman on Chincoteauge Island is looking to alter that mindset.

Myrtle Beach once banned the sale of hermit crabs In July 2001, the city of Myrtle Beach made the sale of hermit crabs illegal, by classifying them as a “feral animal,” according to The Sun ...

Hermit crabs are finding their way into discarded tires in the ocean – and they can’t get out, a new study from Hirosaki University found. The concave interior of a car tire can trap hermit ...

Plastic Pollution Has Killed Half A Million Hermit Crabs That Confused Trash For Shells Dead whales beach themselves with hundreds of pounds of plastic in their stomachs. Turtles can't breathe ...

Jackson Hermit crabs race for 25th time at Clark Lake's Beach Bar Updated: Jul. 12, 2016, 7:22 p.m. | Published: Jul. 12, 2016, 6:22 p.m.

Mary Akers' Journey with breeding hermit crabs (WSLS) “My goal is to get them reclassified as exotic pets and all that goes with that,” Akers said. “So that way they are respected.

VALPARAISO — Two hermit crabs evicted from a plane at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport last week have caught a new ride to Illinois. The crabs, named Spirit and Rainbow, belong to 7-year-old ...

Hermit crabs get “excited” by a chemical additive called oleamide that leaks from ocean plastic pollution because they think they are smelling food.