This is video of the new hermit crab species Pylopaguropsis mollymullerae taken by Ellen Muller at dive site 'Something Special', southern Caribbean. Credit: Rafael Lemaitre and Ellen Muller

One morning on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, photographer Steve Simonsen captures thousands of hermit crabs migrating

Marine biologists at Queensland Museum Kurilpa have described a new species of hermit crab, Strigopagurus fragarchela (common name is the strawberry-clawed hermit), from the continental shelf off south‑east Queensland, Australia.

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Recent underwater photographs and video from the National Marine Park of the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire has led to the discovery of a new species […]

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Gatherings of hermit crabs over a deceased crab may look like a funeral, but they have a much more selfish purpose.

Researchers counted nearly 600,000 dead hermit crabs on one island chain alone.

Ocean pollution 'threatening biodiversity more than is currently recognised', warn researchers

New research finds that on just two remote islands alone, nearly 600,000 crabs are killed every year by plastic debris.

An Irish study found that pollution affects cognition and they're unable to detect an ideal shell when they see one.