Hermit crabs survive by borrowing shells abandoned by other sea creatures. It’s quite unusual to actually witness one switching shells, however, which is why this video is so special.

MSAI director Kristian Hammond was experimenting with ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI to interact in a conversational way, when he asked it to write a story about a hermit who realized he was ...

What one man learned living alone in the wilderness for 40 years. In his memoir, “The Way of the Hermit,” Ken Smith dispels myths about the solitary life off the grid.

A research team led by Akihiro Yoshikawa, a professor from the University of Tokyo, collected the anemone-hermit crab duo from the sea floor at a depth of 100 to 400 meters (330 to1,300 feet) in ...

Usually one hermit crab will come free with the purchase of a cage and people can buy more if they’d like. Beach stores sell critter keepers and small wire cages for under $20.

Hermit crab uses plastic scooper as its shell — check it out! Marine biologist Sheree Marris came across a resourceful hermit crab while on a coral reef monitoring expedition in the Philippines.