Yeti Crabs & Ghost Octopus! Unique Life Found at 1st Antarctic Deep-Sea Vents. ... The yeti crabs seem to cultivate "gardens" of bacteria on their chests, which are covered with hairy tendrils.

Cramped quarters. Many of the yeti crab's distinctive features — like its stark white coloring and its "hairy" body — are the creature's adaptations to its habitat, the researchers said.

A species of yeti crab, formerly nicknamed “The Hoff” after television star David Hasslehoff, spends almost its entire life in a cramped existence between extreme cold and heat, farming ...

It is, however, a type of yeti crab, ... Rock rafts 'life origin' floated. Published. 2 September 2011. Fossil insight into ancient Earth. Published. 22 August 2011. Ocean giant Alvin set for upgrade.