New research has begun to lift the lid on the global online trade in land crabs, leading scientists to call for closer monitoring and regulation to better understand any effects it may be having on ...

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 ...

Hermit crabs have a bizarre trick for squeezing into shells that seem impossibly small, and scientists just figured out the surprising mechanism behind it. The answer has nothing to do with appetite, ...