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 ...

Hermit crabs utilizing plastic caps as substitutes for their natural shells. In a concerning revelation, recent images depict Hermit crabs resorting to plastic debris as makeshift shells for ...

KOCHI: Illustrating the threat posed by plastic pollution to the marine ecosystem, a hermit crab was recently found using a plastic ice cream container for a shell on Kalpeni Island, in the ...

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 ...

Plastic waste is at an all-time high, with reports of tiny plastic falling from the sky even being seen as recently as 2020. But as many try to find ways to deal with the growing trash that litter our ...