Hermit crabs have an odd housing situation. Rather than produce their own shells like other crustaceans, they must find an empty shell made by a completely different species, marine snails, in order ...
Francis Horne, a biologist who studies shell formation at Texas State University, offers this answer. The exoskeletons of snails and clams, or their shells in common parlance, differ from the ...
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