vultureculturecoyote:

Huge hermit crab I found. Thought I got lucky and found a conch shell. But it had a resident.

They are really strong. I could hardly hang on to it. Pulling my arm into the water with it.

Took this pic before the alligator incident. I don’t think I will be getting this close to water any more. Even if it is salt water here.

seatrench:

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Some crabs are equipped with small paddles on their hindlegs for swimming around in midwater. They generally also have a flat body to make them more hydrodynamic.

This is not one of those crabs.

cool-critters:

Candy crab (Hoplophrys oatesi)

The candy crab is a very colourful crab that grows from 1.5 to 2 cm. It lives on various species of soft coral in the Dendronephthya genus. It camouflages itself by mimicing the colours of the polyps among which it hides. It adds further camouflage by attaching polyps to its carapace. Colours vary depending on the colour of the coral, and may be white, pink, yellow or red. This crab is widespread in the Indo-Pacific and it feeds on plankton. photo credits: digimuse, Brian Maye, divemecressi

Source: currentsinbiology

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runcibility:

I FOUND MY PATRONUS ANIMAL! MEET…. THE SHAME-FACED CRAB:

JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE:

IT IS CLEARLY NERVOUS AROUND EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING BAD TO HAPPEN

LOOK AT THEM AWKWARDLY SCUTTLING OUT OF A SOCIAL SITUATION:

LOOK AT THEM HARRUMPHING AT BEING TOLD ATTENDANCE AT A GATHERING IS MANDATORY:

LOOK AT THEM BURROW AWAY FROM THEIR PROBLEMS, PRETENDING THEY DON’T EXIST:

I LOVE YOU, CRAB OF SHAME!

courtnashe:

timberwolf-manstab:

painted-bees:

Sean and I found a species of decorator crab in Ya Nui’s tidal pools today..!

Somebody enchanted a pile of gravel to become a small spider and then just left it on the beach to fend for itself. Irresponsible.

How dare they, I take the pile of gravel home and love it.