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What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species ...

The vast majority of the items the researchers saw the hermit crabs using in the photographs ... which is what we're used to seeing - they would have a red plastic bottle cap on their back or ...

The BBC's Shabnam Grewal spoke to a hermit on the Scottish moors ... Eventually the police set a trap and caught him red-handed. The writer Mike Finkel visited Knight in prison when writing ...

Though most hermit crabs are small, some of the more exotic species can be as wide as a foot or more, the largest being the coconut crab, who has a leg span of more than three feet. Most of the hermit ...

Take a name like Surf ‘n’ Turf or Crab Legs for instance. However, in other cases, food-inspired hermit crab names offer silliness without any irony, like Pot Roast. Here are some unique, ...

The California red-legged frog and northern red-legged frog were once both classified as subspecies — Rana a. draytonii and Rana a. aurora, respectively — of the red-legged frog (Rana aurora). But a ...

Experts agree: Mark Twain's favorite amphibian, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” is none other than the California red-legged frog. Once so common it was a staple cuisine, California ...

and red hairy legs mottled with white. Atlantic Blue crab - this crab has a blue-brown shell and can grow to 20cm/8in, but is usually sold smaller. When newly 'moulted' (crabs regularly shed their ...