In this Instagram video, you can watch a hermit crab hoist itself out of its old shell and into a new one with ease. Let’s learn more about why they do this unusual home relocation behavior.

Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases. The three suspects – Liao Zhibin ...

None of the 600 C rugosus wore trash, it said. A Coenobita brevimanus hermit crab is pictured on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island) in an undated photograph. Photo courtesy of the National Academy of ...

TOKYO: Three men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of protected hermit crabs inside, police said Thursday (May 8). A hotel worker in Amami ...

They will, however, fight other hermit crabs for a vacant shell. Some steps a hermit crab will take to select a new shell include testing the shell for moveability, looking at the texture ...

One morning on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, photographer Steve Simonsen captures thousands of hermit crabs migrating Can We Predict the Universe’s Randomness — or Is It All Just Chaos?

In a chance discovery, a new species of deep-water hermit crab - the “green-eyed hermit crab” - has been discovered. The creature is unique to South Africa’s West Coast. UCT alumnus Lara ...

Three Chinese men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of hermit crabs inside, police said Thursday. A hotel worker in the city of Amami ...

Three Chinese men have been arrested for alleged possession of several thousand protected hermit crabs in the southwestern Japan city of Amami, police said. Liao Zhibin, 24, Song Zhenhao, 26, and Guo ...

Three Chinese men have been arrested in Japan after several thousand protected land hermit crabs were found in their suitcases as police investigate whether the suspects intended to sell or keep ...