Walking along Tower Beach, you might not realize how many different invertebrates are right below your feet. Giant isopods, small-but-mighty barnacles, common shore crabs, blue mussels, and periwinkle snails. You pick up what you think is an unsuspecting periwinkle snail, but when you turn the shell over, you find a small bristly claw instead of … Continue reading Crabby but crabtivating: hermit crabs and ocean acidification