Hermit crabs have found their way into human lives too - sometimes as pets, often to their detriment. Many die in captivity, while others are threatened by plastic pollution, habitat loss, and hunting ...

Sept. 7 (UPI) --A hermit crab on a remote Pacific island is going viral after curing its homelessness by using a discarded doll head as a shell. A photo shared on Reddit by user jamspangle shows a ...

Poking around on the beach, you may have encountered a hermit crab — a typically petite crustacean whose home is the shell it carries around on its back. Now imagine that tiny crab grew bigger and ...

A close-up of a coconut crab on Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Laura Beauregard U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The largest hermit crabs on the planet cannot help but attract speculation and ...