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Furry Lobster or Yeti Crab?

Post 1

Azara

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4785482.stm

has a very interesting story about an arthropod that divers found near some Pacific deep sea vents in the Easter Island area. The combination of the hard outer skeleton and the furry-looking limbs is really strange!

Azara
smiley - rose


Furry Lobster or Yeti Crab?

Post 2

U168592

That is so smiley - cool

Is it the missing link? smiley - laugh (although seriously, makes you realise how closely all the animals on this planet are so much alike and relate...)


Furry Lobster or Yeti Crab?

Post 3

Gnomon - time to move on

Mankind has only explored something like 2% of the ocean floor.


Furry Lobster or Yeti Crab?

Post 4

U168592

Yeah, if that! And yet we continue to look to the stars... smiley - winkeye


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