Isn't this wild!

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This photo released Tuesday March 7, 2006 by the IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) shows a new crustacean, called 'Kiwi hirsuta'. The eyeless shellfish, about 15cm long was discovered in March 2005 during a diving mission led by American researcher Robert Vrijenhoek, of the MBARI Institut, Cal., in hydrothermal vents of the Pacific Antartic Ridge, south of Easter Island. (AP Photo/A Fifis; IFREMER)

How long before these show up at the LFS.......just kidding....

 

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very cool

 

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looks like a white fuzzy tick. I think it would scare the crap out of me if I saw it in an ocean. but I would not see it where they were thats for sure.

 

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it looks sooo cute, i want one, haha

 

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So umm... How do you make a hydrothermal aquarium? lol. maybe I could put some of those cool tube worms in it too. :read:

 

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yea, first pressurize the tank to equal about 2 miles under, then get some molten rock...

maybe we should wait a few more years for technology to catch up...

 

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I imagine someone somewhere at some univeristy or such has tried to keep some of these hydrothermal animals alive...... or tried to replicate their environment somewhat. I wonder how adaptable they would be.........hmmmmm interesting I would like to see it in it's own environment I wonder if there is video of it anywhere.