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Anemone porcelain crabs can avoid predators by not only living in anemones but by willing loosing appendages to avoid infection.
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The Porcelain Crab

Anemone porcelain crabs may look delicate but they have their own sort of armor: a...
This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...
September 2013
A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

Male fiddler crabs each have a single super-sized claw that they use as a weapon to...
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:18
A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
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The Great Hermit Crab Migration

Over the last few days, a video of hermit crabs stampeding across the rocky shores...
September 2012

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