http://www.metafilter.com/tags/kiwa Posts tagged with 'kiwa' at MetaFilter. Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:44:29 -0800 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:44:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/49856/Untold%2Dcreatures%2Dof%2Dthe%2Ddeep The <a href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/education/edu_htv.htm">hydrothermal vents</a> between Easter Island and Juan Fernandez are considered to be the <a href="http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~hey/fastest.html">Earth's fastest spreading center</a> at approximately 150km per million years. Not only is this a geological hotspot, but a <a href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/education/edu_animals.htm">biological</a> one too where at temperatures of up to 187<small>c</small> and depths of 2200m researchers have discovered amongst other things a blind hairy albino lobster. Ladies, gentlemen and MeFites I present to you <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/03/08/crustacean-fur060308.html"><i>Kiwa hirsute</i> (aka The Yeti Crab)</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49856 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:44:29 -0800 crab easter hirsute hydrothermal island kiwa kiwaHirsute tastyCrustaceans underTheSea vents yeti furtive