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SPINELESS MARVELS

A new species nicknamed the yeti crab looked photoshopped to a startled public when researchers first released an image of the deep-dwelling invertebrate. The specimen, belonging to the species now called Kiwa hirsuta, came from 2,228 meters down in the South Pacific. A wrap-up analysis put out by Census of Marine Life researchers concludes that most marine diversity lies not in fish but in life-forms without backbones. Credit: A. Fifis 2006

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