This is our 21-year-old hermit crab, Leonardo Da Pinci, known affectionately as Crab-alicious, or just plain Crabby. Our daughter got Leonardo and a friend for her 9th birthday and I’ve been taking ...

Terrestrial hermit crabs are soft-bodied crustaceans that live near water in the world's tropical areas. Without any natural protection of their own, these crabs normally find shelter in discarded ...

Did your kids find a hermit crab on the beach while on vacation? Or maybe they brought one home from a boardwalk shop. Now, the real question is how do you care for your new critter? The answer ...

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the U.K. coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny hermit crab scuttling about. What you might not realize is that hermit crabs are ...

On a recent Sunday morning I stepped out on my front porch and discovered my hermit crab container was sitting sideways on the front steps. I quickly turned it right side up and opened it to check on ...

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs and broken glass bottles, instead of shells. New research by Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying ...