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.

Rare footage captures a hermit crab swapping shells, showcasing a crucial survival moment. The video, filmed by Angela Sayre, founder of Crustacean Plantation, highlights the shell shortages crabs ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

He compared hundreds of specimens of nine related species of hermit crab and showed that crustaceans that have more valuable shells have longer sexual tubes, helping them keep a grip on their homes ...