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Hermit crab on the bottom of the North Atlantic. Hermit crabs protect themselves from predators by the adaptation of carrying around a salvaged empty seashell, into which the whole crab's body can retract. As the hermit crab grows in size, it has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one.