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10 Deep Sea Creatures That Are (Almost) Too Bizarre to Be Real
With a leg span of 13 feet (4 meters), the Japanese spider crab ... white teeth" to attract prey before swallowing them whole. The giant isopod (Bathynomus) is a deep-sea crustacean related ...
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Large, ghostly white crab-like predator discovered at the bottom of the Atacama Trench
A ghostly white ... Deep-Ocean Observing System (IDOOS) Expedition, which aims to explore and understand the tectonic and oceanographic processes of the region through multiple deep sea ...
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Antarctic 'Hoff crab' males grow bigger claws to compete for mates around hot vents
More information: Christopher Nicolai Roterman et al, Yeti claws: Cheliped sexual dimorphism and symmetry in deep-sea yeti crabs (Kiwaidae), PLOS ONE (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314320 ...
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Hasselhoff crab has bigger claws to fight for mate
Male crabs of a species named after actor ... appearance - at the East Scotia Ridge in the Scotia Sea. Dr Nicolai Roterman, a deep-sea ecologist from the University of Portsmouth and lead author ...