Surprisingly, hermit crabs have adapted and are using things like bottle caps, light bulbs and plastic cups as shells. A recent study published in Science of The Total Environment found that this ...

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 are famous for being small critters that, from time to time throughout their lives, abandon one shell carried on their back to pick up a new one. Project HERMITS by [Ken Nakagaki] is ...

Hermit crabs are ditching natural shells and choosing to protect themselves ... United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "Unless we change how we produce, use and dispose of plastic, the ...

The Trustees of the Natural History Museum A bottle on a littered beach with shells from hermit crabs that were trapped inside The researchers counted how many hazardous containers there were and ...