Wearing shells painted in unnatural neon tones and housed within small wire cages, hermit crabs are commonly found in boardwalk shops down the shore — where they can face the same thoughtless ...

The life of a hermit crab is one of repetition. Find an abandoned snail shell. Live in it. Nom on some flecks of detritus. Grow bigger. Find a slightly bigger shell. Repeat all steps for the rest of ...

When hermit crabs do battle, they rap aggressively on each other’s shells, relentlessly beating on each other until one admits defeat and is ousted from its shell for good. It’s brutal, aggressive, ...

Scientists build clever contraptions to study animal behavior like the hermit crab housing market. In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth College ...

Artificial intelligence has given this 83-year-old research scientist a new lease on life. I had been wanting to complete a ...

Most of the time, hermit crabs live up to their names, keeping to themselves and refusing to socialize with each other members of their species nearby. But sometimes hermit crabs hang out… and they’re ...