Hermit crabs live inside armor built by other species, usually...  ..., or in any found object it will fit into. As the crab grows, it needs to find a larger shell to accommo...  ...takes up residence inside a living coral. As the crab grows, the dome of coral grows, too, so the...

The web series Jonathan Bird's Blue World has some...  ...d has some fascinating footage of rather colorful hermit crab . She’s even got decorations on her shell! W...  ...are attached to her shell. They help protect the crab by scaring away predators, and in turn, she helps...  ...ink)But what’s rea...

YouTube user Albizu Garcia visited a beach in Puer...  ...a visited a beach in Puerto Rico and found that a hermit crab had discarded a conventional shell for a stylish...  ...ould give him the ability to join with other LEGO crabs to create a larger structure. You can see the vid...  ...here. Make sure that you...

In this clip from the BBC One series Life Story, S...  ...ies Life Story, Sir David Attenborough narrates a hermit crab housing chain. If you’ve ever had pet hermit crabs , you know they are always on the lookout for the...  ...ave the smallest shells strategically placed near cra...

[http://youtu.be/SDY1wTkyfTc] (YouTube link)This p...  ...tp://youtu.be/SDY1wTkyfTc] (YouTube link)This pet hermit crab climbed to the top of his, um, food container or...

Japanese artist Aki Inomata once asked &qu...  ...a once asked "Why not hand over a shelter to hermit crabs ?" and answered her own question with this: a...  ...Aki's said: In this piece I gave hermit crabs shelters that I had made for them, and if they li...  ...returned to France. Th...

Biologists studying hermit crabs in a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea discovered...  ...'re quite civilized! When a lone crab encountered one of the beautiful new shells, it...  ...If the new shell was a good fit, the crab claime...

Getting evicted from your house isn't something th...  ...and colleagues filmed one such eviction event in hermit crabs :To evict a fellow crab from a coveted shell, the attacker will rap on th...

Have you ever thought how jellyfish babies get bor...  ...ht how jellyfish babies get born? And what does a hermit crab got anything to do with 'em?Creature Cast Blog fr...  ...rva that swims around then lands on the back of a hermit crab 's shell. Then the larva metamorphoses into a poly...  ...s more polyps, g...