There’s only one freshwater hermit crab, Clibanarius fonticola, which is native to Vanuatu. Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ...

Global review of freshwater species finds a quarter of them are threatened with extinction. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The video above, filmed at the MalaMala Private Game Reserve in South Africa, shows how a tiny freshwater crab managed to survive a lion encounter In the video, filmed by park rangers, the four ...

Thousands of fish, crab and dragonfly species could become extinct ... This is the group that not only contains snails, but also other invertebrates such as freshwater mussels and oysters. Previous ...