You can see he doesn’t have space,” she explained in Spanish while holding up the crab still inside the pipe, as reported by The Dodo. Amill was more than happy to relocate the tiny crustacean ...

Hermit crabs have a curled tail with a hook that enables their bodies to fit inside these borrowed shells. Sometimes when a new shell turns up, hermit crabs will form a line, biggest to smallest ...

They also analysed DNA inside the guts of crabs to discover what they were eating. Dr Uthicke said the DNA analysis confirmed at least seven crab species that ate CoTS juveniles in the wild.