New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species in its family to show different claw characteristics between sexes.

The Yeti crab isn’t your typical beach bum. Unlike its shallow-water cousins, it thrives in the extreme environment of ...

Scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Southampton discovered the difference in claw size while monitoring the “Hoff crab”, which gained its ... in harsh deep-sea environments like ...

The crab earned its nickname due to the dense ... which live exclusively in harsh deep-sea environments like hydrothermal vents and methane seeps. “Knowing that there’s a difference in size ...

“But the Hoff crab is able to survive by crowding around the hot hydrothermal vents and evolving in ways we’re only just beginning to understand.” The vents are made up of volcanic rock ...