Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When walking into a beach store, it’s hard to not stop and admire the hermit crabs crawling around in their environment. The crabs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of hermit crabs were seen crawling ashore on a bayside beach in Galveston. (Michelle Canizalez) "I have seen them on ...

Hermit crabs are social creatures that can make great family pets. Hermit crabs live on land and use empty shells for protection. If you take proper care of them, a hermit crab can be your companion ...

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A beach outing turned into a rare coastal spectacle when Michelle Canizalez of The Woodlands encountered a mass gathering of hermit crabs on the bayside of Galveston Island earlier this month. "I have ...

What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species, called ...

"I have seen them on East Beach, San Luis Beach, and Seawolf Park. Really they are everywhere on the bayside," Canizalez told Chron. "The day of the video, I would say thousands that we seen." ...