Wondering if you can eat coconut crabs? You can — just like this famous Youtuber who traveled to the South Pacific to enjoy ...

On the shores of Okinawa, Japan, an American photographer witnessed something amazing. Hermit crabs were crawling into plastic bottle caps, using them as their home instead of shells. Illegal ...

The common hermit crab may be small, but it’s one of the beach’s most recognizable residents — famous for carrying its home on its back. This crab uses empty shells of other animals for protection, ...

Did you know that terrestrial hermit crabs socialize with each other? According to a recent study at the University of California at Berkeley, researchers discovered that hermit crabs congregate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers sampled 95 fiddler crabs [Getty Images] A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown ...

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to scientists. The University of Exeter said scientists observed fiddler crabs in a ...