Hairy crab lounges deep in the Pacific

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has the body of a crab—except with long, fluffy, blonde hair covering its legs.

DEEP BLONDE. A creature from the southeast Pacific is not just a new species. It’s in a new genus and family. © Ifremer/A. Fifis

It lives some 2,200 meters deep in the southeast Pacific near hydrothermal vents, says Joe Jones of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.