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VICTORIA GILL
Victoria is BBC News's award-winning science correspondent. Her reporting can be found on television, radio and online.
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I was recently stopped in my tracks by what I'd describe as a 'cutely apocalyptic' photograph. It's the one you see on the left, of a small, beady-eyed hermit crab tucked neatly into a bright red object.
This 'shell' provides the little crustacean
