Scientists from the University of Southampton worked with the University of Portsmouth to discover a new species of crab.

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...

Scientists from the University of Southampton worked with the University of Portsmouth to discover a new species of crab.

Scientists from the University of Southampton have played a key role in discovering a new species of male crabs, which has now been named after David Hasselhoff. The species, officially named Kiwa ...

The crab got its nickname because of its hairy chest, which prompted comparisons with the Baywatch star David Hasselhoff.

The creature, whose official name is Kiwa tyleri, is a type of deep-sea crustacean which lives in vast communities around hot vents on the seafloor in Antarctica. Its many hairs host bacteria that ...

University of Portsmouth Its scientific name is Kiwa tyleri The latest study examined 135 of the crabs - part of the Kiwaidae family which are also known as Yeti crabs because of their bristly ...

The species, which has the official name of Kiwa tyleri, lives in large communities around hot vents on the seafloor in Antarctica and its many hairs host bacteria which the crab feeds on.

The species, which has the official name of Kiwa tyleri, lives in large communities around hot vents on the seafloor in Antarctica and its many hairs host bacteria which the crab feeds on.