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Article: Newly-discovered hairy crab species shakes up scientific community.
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- The Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2006
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Byline: Karen Ravn
MONTEREY, Calif. _ Things can get pretty hairy down at the bottom of the sea.
Crabs, for instance.
Not hairy-as-in-scary. Hairy-as-in-hirsute.
Scientists _ including marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing _ have discovered a new species of crabs that they've named "hirsuta" because of their very hairy legs.
But big hair isn't all these crabs have going for them. They're also blind, smelly, and endowed with many intriguing traits _ evident to scientists if not to the rest of us _ that set them apart, far apart, from any other crabs that anyone has ever seen.
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