In their attempts to seek out abandoned shells of sea snails to save themselves from predators, they are prone to a ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

Hermit crabs live inside empty gastropod or snail shells and are scavengers when it comes time to eat. The shell protects the soft abdomen and normally only its head and limbs project through the ...

They said two-thirds of hermit crabs species were pictured in "artificial ... "Instead of being adorned with a beautiful snail shell, which is what we're used to seeing - they would have a red ...

The hermit crab has a soft abdomen which it protects by occupying shells left empty by dead sea snails and other animals. However as the hermit crab grows it has to find a larger shell. The right ...