Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Three researchers maneuvered through the darkness of an underwater cave in Japan. It was the same cave off Okinawa Island where a new species of crab with degenerated eyes and a white body had ...

Off the coast of Brisbane, Australia, a new species was caught in a trawling net. Felipe Palacio via Unsplash When anglers dropped trawling nets into the Pacific Ocean several miles off the east coast ...

Hermit crabs rely on sensory hairs to gather life or death data on their surroundings. “For this study, I was especially intrigued by how they used their claws and other sensory appendages, such as ...

If you are the curious type that likes to hop over tide pools and investigate puka, why not pause for a moment and take a deeper look into what you may find. There are many living animals you may not ...

Like humans, shelter is an essential requirement for animals, but some hermit crabs are making homes out of the most unusual suspect: our trash. According to a paper published in the scientific ...

The examination of all available material of hermit crabs of the genus Xylopagurus A. Milne Edwards revealed the existence of two new species previously confounded with X. rectus A. Milne Edwards. As ...

Researchers discovered a new species of hermit crab from a dark underwater cave in Japan, according to a new study. Photo by Yoshihisa Fujita provided by the University of the Ryukyus Three ...