Laura of the Japanese-language blog Caroline &...  ...weets.Her most recent project is a set of painted shells . They are used in kaiawase, a game played by wome...  ...describes the game:To play the game, a number of shells are divided between two boxes. One group is taken...  ...d other romances are painte...

Japanese artist Aki Inomata once asked &qu...  ...d her own question with this: a series of plastic shells modeled after the New York City skyline, a Parisi...  ...iked my shelters, I got them to use them as their shell . I overheard that the land of the former French...  ...made me think of hermit crabs, whic...

Biologists studying hermit crabs...  ...a lone crab encountered one of the beautiful new shells , it immediately inspected the shelter...  ...the new shelter for size. If the new shell was a good fit, the crab claimed it. Classic herm...  ...hermit crab behavior. But if the new...

Getting evicted from your house isn't something th...  ...ermit crabs:To evict a fellow crab from a coveted shell , the attacker will rap on the outside of it. This...  ...ld tight until the attacker gives up. The current shell occupant might also emerge and fight back, defend...  ...t might also emerge and figh...

A bit too strong? No, this record has nothing to do with the way they smell. A recent study determined that a dung beetle can pull 1,141 times its own body weight. Just picture how they figured that out: In the study, s...

You only have to look at a turtle once to realize...  ...t they are from other vertebrates. Where did that shell come from? The shell itself is made from broadened and flattened ribs,...  ...n cartoons, you couldn't pull a turtle out of its shell ). The shoulder blades sit und...

Shell commercial featuring a Ferraris racing through ma...