Even with a slightly askew SpongeBob SquarePants on its shell, a hermit crab climbing the wire cage in front of a T-shirt shop is symbolic of the Jersey Shore. Despite a track record as short ...

Even with a slightly askew SpongeBob on its shell, a hermit crab climbing the wire cage in front of a T-shirt shop is symbolic of the Jersey shore. Despite a track record as short-lived summer ...

A growing hermit crab is always on the lookout for a bigger shell, and when an appropriately sized shelter isn't readily available, these crustaceans sometimes have to make do with whatever debris ...

Ryean Ash Nair named this cute hermit crab SpongeBob because of its yellow shell. (Ryean Nair pic) During a family trip to Port Dickson, Ryean Ash Nair’s father pointed out the tiny hermit crabs ...

Carrie White Correspondent Virginia Beach's Hermit Crab Challenge recently was ranked one of America's Top Five Wackiest Summer Events. The rating is misleading, said longtime event judge L.D. Davis.

Jan. 18 (UPI) --A visitor to a Thailand beach captured video of a recycling-minded hermit crab using an unusual object for a shell -- a bottle cap.The video, recorded earlier this month in Krabi ...

Hermit crabs are best known for using snail shells to protect their fleshy, shell-less bodies. But one group of hermit crabs uses a cozier type of protection: a sea anemone.

Hermit crabs are famous for making a home of anything even remotely shell-like: old cans, shoes, toy buckets, and so-on. They’re the trailer trash of the crustacean world.

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 ...

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs and broken glass bottles, instead of shells. New research by Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying ...