Plastic pollution killed half a million hermit crabs on remote island, new research reveals

A new study claims that after being trapped in plastic bottles, more than half a million crabs have been killed.

The research studied the population of a strawberry hermit crab. Research selected two survey sites which were remote tropical island locations - Henderson Island, South Pacific, and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Indian Ocean.

The criteria behind the selection of these sites was that both were highly polluted ....