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Picture of newly discovered "blonde-haired" lobster Rhett Butler, mongabay.com March 8, 2006 Divers found a new species of crustacean living deep in hydrothermal vents of the South Pacific. The creature resembles a lobster covered with "silky, blond" fur say researchers who made the discovery. The divers found the animal in ocean waters 7,540 feet (2,300 meters) deep at a site 900 miles south of Easter Island in the South Pacific. The 6-inch long (15 cm) animal lives in hydrothermal vents and is blind, with only "the vestige of a membrane" in place of eyes says Michel Segonzac of the French Institute for Sea Exploration, one of the researchers who made the find.
The diving expedition was organized by Robert Vrijenhoek of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.
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Kiwi hirsuta, a newly discovered crustacean found in hydrothermal vents of the Pacific Antarctic Ridge, south of Easter Island. Photo courtesy of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER).
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