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.

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 ...

The vast majority of the items the researchers saw the hermit crabs using in the photographs were made of plastic Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge shells as armour for their bodies ...

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 ...

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 ...

and the shell now belongs to a hermit crab. Curious, you flip it over. A row of suckers. A pair of eyes. An octopus. In particular, Amphioctopus marginatus, also known as the coconut octopus.