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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.

Hermit crabs live inside empty gastropod or snail shells and are scavengers when it ... A variety of blue-green algae species occur naturally and are present year-round in the St. Johns River ...

A few weeks earlier and some 2,500 miles away in Ocean City, New Jersey, a young boy was seen with a single hermit crab purchased as a vacation souvenir from a local beach shop. This crab was a victim ...

In a delightful turn of events near the South African West Coast, scientists stumble upon a new hermit crab species with distinctively green eyes. Tailored nucleic acid extraction and amplification ...