Discovery of Yeti crab, lobster-like blind crustacean that is covered in bristles, along hydrothermal cracks
Order: Decapoda.
A recently discovered group of crustaceans called yeti crabs (genus Kiwa, order Decapoda) have added…
We test whether a new species of Yeti crab, which we describe as Kiwa
There are three known species of yeti crabs, which make up the family Kiwaidae, and one of these species, Kiwa tyleri, has just been officially ...
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But they also saw Yeti crabs holding their hairy claws out over plumes of warm water from hydrothermal vents. Because the crab's arm hairs support large colonies ...
Females carrying eggs only move away from vent chimneys, and into the surrounding polar deep-sea, in order to release their larvae; these ...
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This species of crab - found abundantly near the hot-water vents of the Southern Ocean - have now been described for the first time.