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Three Candidates to Be Your New Personal Mascot

Discover the adorbs hermit crab, a new Caribbean species that thrives alongside moray eels. Check out its unique lifestyle!

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Maybe you're feeling like the animal you most identified with in previous years (panda bear in snow, puggle, Betty White) just isn't adequate for 2017. If that's the case, here are three creatures that would like to apply for the job. Only one is venomous. *** An adorbs hermit crab with candy-cane stripes https://youtu.be/wyuGpN9nxes Are you one of those people who wishes Christmas could be year round? Cute but a homebody? Friendly with creatures that others consider hideous monsters? You might identify with Pylopaguropsis mollymullerae, a new species of hermit crab discovered in the Caribbean. A scuba diver spotted these jaunty animals hanging out in the same underwater crevices where moray eels live. This suggests that the crabs have some sort of arrangement with the predatory eels—they may clean mucus off the eels' bodies, or just scavenge food from their dens. *** A dog that shares with friends

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