While the Ocean Voyager exhibit is absolutely massive (6.3 million system gallons to house whale sharks, et al.),

Five new blanket-hermit crab species described 130 years later from the Pacific

Since 1888, a lone crab species living in an extraordinary symbiosis has been considered to be one of its kind

At the turn of the twentieth century, two independent marine scientists — JR Henderson in 1888, and A Alcock in 1899, described two unusual blanket-hermit crabs from the Indo-West Pacific.

With a recent alarming report that as much as half of the corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has died since 2016 after having suffered consecutive years of heat waves and mass coral bleaching events (the first time sequential bleaching events have ever been recorded), the publication of this new study could not be more relevant.