The sea creature was brought to the Queensland Museum for a closer look, where researchers discovered it was a species of ...

One morning on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, photographer Steve Simonsen captures thousands of hermit crabs migrating Is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin the Future of Space Exploration? (01:11 ...

White sand laced with plutonium. Water tainted with strontium. Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts containing caesium. A dome ‘coffin’ crammed with radioactive material in plastic bags.

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Getty Images The coconut crab is a kind of carcinized hermit crab, a “land crab” that scuttles around remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean. It eats not only coconuts ...

While fall might not actually be a seasonal transition we truly get to enjoy in Florida, we do have our own very special season that gets its start in October—and that’s Stone Crab Season. Native to ...

Everything looks peaceful until the rock he's studying suddenly stands up to reveal itself as a giant crab, knocking the diver down into a black abyss. After blacking out, the explorer wakes up to ...

Their tradition is a long one: each spring they head out to live on the islands, only returning to the larger coastal island of Vega after a hermit-like, and very frugal, 70 or so days.