Angela Sayre, the founder of Crustacean Plantation, shared a video of a hermit crab changing shells in Florida to help raise awareness about shell shortages.

This endemic crab is easily missed by divers and snorkelers ... especially in situations where they cannot provide for themselves. Many marine animals work together and rely on each other through ...

Every part of the crab is usable, but not all parts of the crab are equal. To raise lower-quality bits of crab up a few ...

There’s only one freshwater hermit crab, Clibanarius fonticola, which is native to Vanuatu. Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ...

They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone, external skeletons, and multiple-jointed appendages. In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs.

Some animals work together to ward off or evade predators ... sends shimmering waves of colour along its body to distract or confuse its prey. The hermit crab has a soft abdomen which it protects by ...