The Yeti crab isn’t your typical beach bum. Unlike its shallow-water cousins, it thrives in the extreme environment of ...

"This is the first study to show claw sexual dimorphism in yeti crabs—which live exclusively in harsh deep-sea environments like hydrothermal vents and methane seeps. "Knowing that there's a ...

Male crabs of a species named after actor David Hasselhoff grow bigger claws than females so they can fight each other for a mate, according to a new study. Scientists from the universities of ...

Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan, a small, “glass”-like creature was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface ...

The marine mammals, which were once hunted nearly to extinction, feed on crabs that would ... hydrothermal vents, a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods Christian ...

It’s hard to believe that anything could live here, but these deep-sea hydrothermal vents are teeming with life, including species yet to be discovered. In December 2016, researchers operating a ...