The largest hermit crabs on the planet cannot help but attract speculation and curiosity. The Indo-Pacific creatures have been blamed, dubiously, for scampering off with Amelia Earhart’s bones ...

Gasping for breath, I tried to crawl out of the sea of dark oil that blanketed the sea around me. I could not decide whether to go to shore or farther out to sea, as I could hardly see anything.

'Green-eyed hermit crab' is the common name for a new species recently discovered off the West Coast of South Africa. Apart from its magnetic stare, however, there is a number of characteristic ...

He is the best-dressed crab in the country - the almost certainly the only one to sport a tailor-made suit. This see-through shell shows off all the inner-workings of this hairy hermit crab's body.