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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The distribution of shells in one population of hermit crabs matched how wealth is shared in some human societies. By Elizabeth Preston Hermit crabs face a uniquely competitive real estate market.

It might not be such a strange sight in Ocean City or perhaps Bermuda, but what a local couple recently spotted in their backyard was definitely not typical for Berks County. On Monday, crawling ...

Hermit crabs are finding their way into discarded tires in the ocean – and they can’t get out, a new study from Hirosaki University found. The concave interior of a car tire can trap hermit crabs that ...

Like humans, shelter is an essential requirement for animals, but some hermit crabs are making homes out of the most unusual suspect: our trash. According to a paper published in the scientific ...

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. (WFSB) - A meeting will be held on Tuesday night in Old Saybrook on whether to allow classroom pets into schools. Earlier this year, the town removed animals from classroom. The ...