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

Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The latest study examined 135 of the crabs - part of the Kiwaidae family which are also known as Yeti crabs because of ... crabs Dr Nicolai Roterman, a deep-sea ecologist from the University ...

Dr Nicolai Roterman, a deep-sea ecologist from the University of ... claws helps us understand the behaviour and ecology of the yeti crab family - which we know little about because they are ...