Yeti Crab: The Hidden Marvels of the Ocean’s Dark Depths
Two thousand two hundred meters below the Pacific, near a vent spewing water hot enough to warp metal, a blind white crustacean sits with its claws held out and waves them, slowly, again and again, into the current. It isn’t threat display. It isn’t grooming. It’s farming. That’s the yeti crab, and researchers only met…