Plastics shed thousands of chemicals into the sea, including oleamide – an industrial lubricant that also occurs naturally. In lab aquariums, researchers tracked 31,500 hunting interactions between ...

More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics accumulate in coastal ...

Symbiosis is the long-term, close interaction between two or more biological species, most often for the benefit of one or both parties. These interactions highlight the diversity of nature. One ...

‘My local Petco HATES to see me coming for this exact reason. Quick to call them out.’ These poor hermit crabs at Petco were struggling to survive. Luckily, they found their guardian angel. In an ...

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 ...

When Shawn Miller’s camera captured a crisis on the shores of Okinawa, Japan, his heart found a mission. It was 2010 when he first witnessed the ingenious yet alarming way the island’s tiny hermit ...

(re: Pink sea anemone that ‘builds home’ for hermit crabs discovered, Nov 10) The discovery of a pink sea anemone that builds “homes” for hermit crabs shows how fascinating nature can be when it’s ...

The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium, which expands the host hermit crab’s ...