It's not quite like knitting sweaters for penguins, but a new conservation project relies on similar crowd-sourced crafting to save another kind of sea creature. MakerBot Industries, a 3-D printer ...

If you've ever bought a pet hermit crab, then you may remember also having to buy several sea shells with it. This is because the crabs don't have shells of their own, and instead have to find empty ...

Project Shellter has some quasi-scientific goals, as well–since hermit crabs are known to co-opt everything from bottlecaps to shotgun shells, creator Miles Lightwood (who initiated the project as an ...