In 2010, photographer Shawn Miller spotted a hermit crab using a bottle cap as a shell. Later, he found the crabs using discarded measuring cups and laundry detergent caps. He was understandably ...

But as many try to find ways to deal with the growing trash that litter our shorelines, hermit crabs have taken to using the waste as homes, creating plastic shells ... in plastic caps and even ...

Sometimes when a new shell turns up, hermit crabs will form a ... Plastic pollution is also a problem for hermit crabs, which often mistake a plastic bottle cap or container for a new home.

In their attempts to seek out abandoned shells of sea snails to save themselves from predators, they are prone to a ...

Bombinhas, Santa Catarina, Brazil Info from Licensor: "This is a diver named Djonatan Junckes. He went bass fishing and ended up finding this hermit crab at the bottom of the sea, in about 7 meters of ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN LEHMANN On Okinawa, Japan, a hermit crab resorts to a plastic bottle cap to protect its soft abdomen. Beachgoers collect the shells the crabs normally use, and they leave trash ...