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A new type of crab was found 900 miles south of Easter island. It is the oddest looking thing. It has fur on it, a water dwelling animal has fur boy thats something you dont see everyday.

Tell me what you think of it


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060307/ap_on_sc/france_new_crustacean



Information thanks to yahoo.com

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pnh

It looks more like a spider with all that fine hair.

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I bet it's some kind of Hermit Crab.

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looks like a cross between a spider and a lobster that had its arms streched out.

even tho its new. wonder how long it will be before someone has a receipe available for it.

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it is odd i wouldnt ever wana see that thing in my tank haha. But think of the bragging rights... "yeah i got the only ehh what ever this thing is in the world" haha

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pnh

its got such pretty blonde hair tho.. its like the barbie of crabs! wonder what kinda camoflauge blonde hairs provide???? cuz... ok.. i wont go there with the blonde jokes

*Chelle*
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I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious...

that looks like something we would hang up in my apartment in October while prepping for the Halloween party.

hmmmmmm


edited for spelling.

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"it's the neck, it creaks under the weight of too much heavy thinking."

I asked my OH to get me one... he laughed

it looks so cuddly!

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Yeah, it's cute. Scary but cute.

My best friend is a hairdresser. She would love to style that lobbie's hair.

Barbie of the crustacean world! v funny Chelle

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I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious...

oversized tick.

Interesting fella, look like the "hug in a mug" arms they use in cuppa soup ads,

here the national geographic article on it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0309_060309_yeti_crab.html

After looking at that pic in git's link I think it looks like a big white tick with giant hairy arms....

Doesn't sound like something that would be able to survive in a tank based on where it lives.

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yeah i understand that but im just saying. the poor thing would die from my lights haha. I did something called a current event for my social studies class and everyone was alll freaked out. I just wish i had a pic of it haha .

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pnh

Makes you wonder where in the evolutionary tree he came from. Assuming you believe in evolution

That would make a really cool looking tank with a bunch of those guys in it.

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i agree with cat...

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pnh

I'd say, upon looking at that and learning that it's found 5,000 feet or more down, that the hairy integument is sensory. Let's face it, eyes are going to be next to useless to a creature stuck permanently at those depths. So it's going to need some other means of sensing its environment, and those hairs would give it a kind of 'tactile radar'. They may also serve other purposes too, but that's the thought that crosses my mind.

Even so, I couldn't help but laugh at the thought of these critters sitting in a hairdressing salon having had all kinds of fashion weirdness unleashed upon them ...


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I CAN HAVE MY VERY OWN HAIRY CRABLET!


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Who is up for the challenge?? Shall we have a crab constructing contest?

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett