While trying to rescue a hermit crab from its plastic home with a natural substitute, she had no clue what was about to unfold.

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

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