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When walking into a beach store, it’s hard to not stop and admire the hermit crabs crawling around in their environment. The crabs may have a shell painted to look like beloved cartoon characters, ...

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. Most people likely ...

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Hermit crabs are small crabs that carry shells on their backs, both for a home and for safety. But with shells being harder to find year after year, hermit crabs have had to spend more time in shells ...

If you are the curious type that likes to hop over tide pools and investigate puka, why not pause for a moment and take a deeper look into what you may find. There are many living animals you may not ...

Hermit crabs have the most chromosomes of any animal, with 254. Chromosomes carry genetic information in the form of DNA. Genes located on autosomes determine the inheritance of physical traits. Sex ...

There are hermits living in the St. Johns River. But before you become alarmed that we have a problem with some folks living in seclusion along the river, I am referring to hermit crabs. Some of you ...

Did you know that terrestrial hermit crabs socialize with each other? According to a recent study at the University of California at Berkeley, researchers discovered that hermit crabs congregate ...

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the UK coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny hermit crab scuttling about. What you might not realise is that hermit crabs are ...