Hermit crabs are small crabs that carry shells on their backs, both for a home and for safety. But with shells being harder to find year after year, hermit crabs have had to spend more time in shells ...

My daughter has a hermit crab for a pet. We don’t see it much because it hides in its shell all day, only coming out after dark. That’s how they got their name. Hermits are people who live alone.

There was a shiny maroon one and one in the color of soothing sea green. Two had swirly undertones of brownish-red patterns. One featured yellow interiors. But the resident chose the one with the ...

Thacker, Robert W. 1994. "Volatile shell-investigation cues of land hermit crabs: Effect of shell fit, detection of cues from other hermit crab species, and cue isolation." Journal of Chemical Ecology ...