Instead, the soft shell part comes down to timing and when the crabs are caught. As they grow, blue crabs (and other species) shed their hard outer shells so that they can grow new, larger ones.

The majority of terrestrial hermit crab species worldwide have used trash as shells, according to a study by experts at two Polish universities to be published next month. The study analyzed ...

The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several stages before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed well in captivity ...

These crabs come together to shed their old shells in a process called moulting. It was our first day of filming and although the crabs had stayed in place for the last week, today they had ...