This video dives into the hilarious yet surprisingly serious question of whether hermit crabs are actually OP. It breaks down ...

Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...

Researchers from Kumamoto University and collaborating institutions have discovered a new species of deep-sea sea anemone that builds shell-like "homes" for hermit crabs—an extraordinary case of ...

A pink sea anemone that “builds a home” for hermit crabs has been discovered. The find, in seas off Japan, is a rare example of "co-evolution" in the ocean depths, say scientists. Researchers from ...

Hermit crabs, turtles and other species found only in Okinawa are vanishing from its beaches, as smugglers and souvenir-hunting tourists strip Japan’s southernmost islands of their unique wildlife.

The crustaceans, non-native and fierce, are taking over the Gulf of Maine. Could eating them help draw down the population? Mike Masi pulls a trap filled with green crabs on to his skiff in York, ...

Beneath the waves off Japan’s Pacific coast, scientists have made a discovery that seems straight out of a nature documentary: a pale pink sea anemone that actually builds homes for hermit crabs.