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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

September 2013

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A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.

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The Great Hermit Crab Migration

September 2012

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest

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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

May 2014

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