A new study found that an ancient, odd-looking creature used shells to protect itself long before the hermit crab, a remarkable discovery that scientists say is the earliest example of the hermit life ...

Shells of worm snails, also known as vermetids, from a Waialua beach. Some people call these mollusks tube snails, but since the reef also hosts abundant species of tube worms, this name is confusing.

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Hermit crabs move into other animals’ discarded shells as shelter, because the ocean is a treacherous place, full of hungry predators. Half a billion years ago, another creature evolved the same ...

Although 2020 may have brought the hermit lifestyle to its zenith, a team of scientists from Durham University in England and Yunnan University in China now says the way of living first appeared in ...

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A new study found that an ancient, odd-looking creature used shells to protect itself long before the hermit crab, a remarkable discovery that scientists say is the earliest example of the hermit life ...