The yeti crab is a blind deep-sea crab with reduced eyes and long bristles on its body. It lives near hydrothermal vents.

It isn’t known whether the yeti crab is very edible. Interest in it so far has been purely scientific and not culinary, so no one has ever tried to...

Yeti crabs are actually thought to be fairly common wherever hydrothermal vents exist in the southern Pacific. While there isn’t yet enough data to...

The hairy claws have evolved to collect and harvest the crab’s main food, bacteria, flowing from the hydrothermal vents.

Most yeti crabs live around deep hydrothermal vents in the southern Pacific biome.

Yeti crabs pose no known danger to people. Because of their remote and extreme habitats, they will never be seen by people except in a deep-sea sub...

Yeti crabs feast on bacteria.