Mass. hermit crabs have trained themselves to curb the crab housing crisis, study says

Mass. hermit crabs have trained themselves to curb the crab housing crisis, study says

Why do hermit crabs stop growing when they outgrow their shells? Tufts University researchers say the answer, based on a study of crabs collected along Massachusetts’ North Shore, comes down to poop. According to a study published in the journal Invertebrate Biology, hermit crabs collected in Beverly helped scientists answer a decades-old question about how […]