In the Deep, Deep Sea, the 'Yeti Crab'

When a lobster goes this is not very appetizing - it's white, it's that you eat it, it tastes like a rotten egg, it covers her hair

However, for scientists who discovered and named it, Kiwa hirsuta is a wonderful discovery. They say that it represents not only new species but also new genus, but also animal families that were not previously known to science. Researchers cruised the South Pacific hundreds of miles south of Easter Island last year and used a scooter Alvin to examine strange creatures living along the underwater cracks.

Despite their extreme heat and sulfur-containing gases, these vents have exotic bacteria, worms, mites and other organisms. Indeed, many scientists believe that life on Earth begins with these vents.

Genetologist Robert Vrijenhoek of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Laboratory in California organized a research cruise and said Alvin 's camera can see strange lobster - like creatures that researchers can find. It seems like a snowman that is disgusting for crustaceans, so it is called a "snowman crab". Aquarium calls family name Kiwi from family goddess Kiwa of Polynesian crustacea

This creature is blind, its hair - such as those really seen in moths and bumblebee - - are established in filamentous fungi.

Researcher - Enrique MacPherson in Spain, William Jones also from the aquarium, and French Michel Segonzac who reported their findings in the latest issue of Zoosystema magazine in France. "The world is well studied, but the bottom of the ocean is not so," Dr. Vrijenhoek said, "In the course of doing normal science, we often encounter things. Open it, please."

So far, scientists just witnessed the proposed snowman crab. Animals are now in vials of the French National History Museum in Paris as part of their large reference deep-sea crab. At the same time, crab expert Joe Jones wants to come back again and wish to have another opportunity to see what is hidden around the hydrothermal vent of the Pacific - Atlantic Ridge.

Scientists discovered deep-sea ecosystems dominated by hairy pale crabs of Antarctica. The new "Snowman Club" survives with many other new species, including seven starfish, leaving the hydrothermal vent and spraying heat and chemicals into dull and cold waters. According to a paper published by PLoS ONE, many other ecosystems are recorded in warmer waters of the warmer world, which is the first discovery of the hydrothermal vent ecosystem in the Southern Ocean.

A team of international scientists recently announced the discovery of a new blind deep-sea crab with yellowish hair on the feet. This crab was first used by marine biologists in March 2005 to study the submarine Alvin to investigate hydrothermal vents of the Pacific - Antarctic Ridge in the south of Easter Island. Because of its furry feet, animals were called by the legendary snowman, nicknamed "Snowman Club" named after the sickman of Himalaya. Yeti Crab was discovered during Easter microplate exploration into the South East Pacific, and was led by MBARI scientist Bob Vrijenhoek. The main purpose of this expedition is to understand how benthosquitters from deep sea hydrothermal vents can settle to other hydrothermal vents spaced hundreds or thousands of miles away did. Vrijenhoek and his team solved this problem by comparing the animal's DNA from hydrothermal vents in various places in the Pacific Ocean.

From the first wonderful glimpse of the late 1970's, we already know that vents are full of curious life: original huge crickets, deep sea otter, snowman crab and hot black detectable "eye" Shrimp body radiates objects (such as vents). Shrimp and other ventilated animals live in complex symbiosis with bacteria. There is no sunlight, but all essential ingredients are present. Microorganisms such as hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen, and natural gas using earth's heat, mineral-rich drainage, and chemical substances generated by these volcanic systems