In an environment as vast and extreme as the world’s oceans, survival of the fittest takes on new meaning. That’s probably why cooperation is the name of the game for many of the more vulnerable ...

Researchers have identified the first known example of one animal, a boxer crab, stimulating another animal, a sea anemone, to reproduce asexually. From the outside, it's a bit of an abusive situation ...

Lybia boxer crabs held engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones Researchers have described a little ...

A newly described anemone species has been found off the coast of Japan and appears to live exclusively on the shells of one hermit crab species. First-of-its-kind video recordings of the hermit crab ...

This is by far one of the craziest creatures on our Hawaiian coral reefs. This three-inch-wide crab is a hermit crab because it does not grow its own shell, but finds empty shells to live in. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paracalliactis tsukisome lives on top of the hermit crab Oncopagurus monstrosus’ shell. A team from Kumamoto University in Japan ...

Paracalliactis tsukisome, a newly discovered sea anemone living in symbiosis with hermit crabs on the deep-sea floor off Japan. (Yoshigawa et al via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A pink sea anemone that ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --Boxer crabs are called so because they carry around sea anemones, one in each claw. The accessories look like a pair of gloves or pompoms. Boxer crabs have been studied sporadically ...

Researchers have identified the first known example of one animal, a boxer crab, stimulating another animal, a sea anemone, to reproduce asexually. From the outside, it's a bit of an abusive situation ...

A pink sea anemone that “builds a home” for hermit crabs has been discovered. The find, in seas off Japan, is a rare example of "co-evolution" in the ocean depths, say scientists. Researchers from ...

A wild-caught Lybia leptochelis crab holding an anemone in each claw. Researchers have identified the first known example of one animal, a boxer crab, stimulating another animal, a sea anemone, to ...