A hermit crab will change shells once it outgrows the current one it’s inhabiting. During a process called molting, which typically occurs once every 12 to 18 months for adult hermit crabs, but ...

Some crabs lacking mollusk shells wear sea trash, it said. Giant African snail shells, another commonly used substitute for mollusk shells, possess insufficient mass to anchor female hermit crabs, it ...

Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases. The three suspects – Liao Zhibin ...

Three Chinese men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of hermit crabs inside, police said Thursday. A hotel worker in the city of Amami ...

TOKYO — Three Chinese men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of protected hermit crabs inside, police said on Thursday. A hotel worker in Amami ...

Hermit crabs have the most chromosomes of any animal, with 254. Chromosomes carry genetic information in the form of DNA. Genes located on autosomes determine the inheritance of physical traits.

TOKYO: Three men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of protected hermit crabs inside, police said Thursday (May 8). A hotel worker in Amami ...