New Animal Resembling Furry Lobster Found

that thing is freaky, it looks like a tick sucked too much blood from an albino monkey. I'm assuming that no other creatures have "fur" like that. Any idea what it's for?

Well, as it is a water creature it could have something to do with a few things.

1) The fur could be used for "sniffing"
2) Feeling around its area
3) Some sort of defense. Much like spider perhaps.

4) it wants to look pretty
5) it's a pimp.

6) reincarnation of Rick James.

but what does it taste like

That "fur" would definitely be highly sensitive to water currents, no question about that. Just on that one characteristic alone, it probably gives the creature a fairly high-resolution sense of what is going on around it. It wouldn't need eyes with senses like that.

All kinds of other stuff could be in that fur--infrared, passive sonar, EM, you name it, but the sensitivity to what is physically happening to the water around it is probably pretty solidly it's primary function.

Is that thing for real? Could be a hoax..?

Are there any other crusteaceans with hair? Assuming this is some kind of hair and not something else.

aharris I thought the same thing as soon as I read it was lobster-like.

I'll have the Kiwa hirsuta thermidor thanks. mmm furry...

3) Some sort of defense. Much like spider perhaps.

Yeah, I thought it looked like a spider. Or, a monkey. Crazy looking, whatever it is!

Weird as hell, but goes to show that there's much left in the world to be discovered.

Yes, but does it taste good?

Stop all this talk about scientific discovery. There are some simple questions to be answered.

• When and where can I eat one?
• Will there be a new Blonde Lobster restaurant opening it's doors near me soon?
• Will the B-52's write a catchy new single?

These are the real questions. Answers?

I can't decide if it's giving me the willies or the heebie geebies...

Wow! An albino Don King lobster!

I'm leaning towards heebie geebies but might be good dipped in butter.

looks like there's much more to see in this world

It actually looks quite disgusting, yet I'm eager to know how it tastes.

It looks cuddly, something I'd take to bed with me to keep my warm, and then eat when I get the munchies.

lol, body of a crab, arms of a monkey... very interesting.

aharris writes:

but what does it taste like

brainwidth writes:

Yes, but does it taste good?

reverie writes:

It actually looks quite disgusting, yet I'm eager to know how it tastes.

It tastes like chicken, of course.

Come on, you had to know that was coming. :)

"I am a King Prawn, mmm-Kay!"

I've noticed (and have often wondered about) small hairlike structures on many crab legs that i've eaten. Of course, they weren't nearly this thick or tuft-like. That said, this discovery doesn't particularly strike me as incredibly odd. Sure, it's weird, but there have certainly been weirder creatures in the world's past.

robK writes:

Are there any other crusteaceans with hair? Assuming this is some kind of hair and not something else.

The adult Dungeness crab has black hair covering parts of it's limbs. It's freaky looking, but very tasty. Nothing like this thing, though.