I thought it was a hoax when I first saw the picture, but the Yeti Crab seems to be for real. An expedition organized by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute found this previously unknown crustacean a year ago, near deep-sea vents south of Easter Island, and the journal for Paris’ National Museum of Natural History has just published the findings.

The yeti crab, otherwise known as kiwa hirsuta, is white, blind, about six inches long, and has legs and claws covered in something like blonde fur. According to this BBC Story, biologists have come up with two main theories to explain the hairs, called “setae.” According to one, the bacteria that cover these hairs help filter toxic minerals from the water that shoots from the deep sea vents. The other theory suggests that the crabs feed off the bacteria, which the hairs collect.

These animals are so distcint from other crustaceans that they got their own family name: kiwaida, after the Polynesian goddess of crustaceans.

As for Nessie, this article and very convincing drawing suggest that she may have been an elephant. Swimming in a cold Scottish lake. Yes.

The reason why we see elephants in Loch Ness is that circuses used to go along the road to Inverness and have a little rest at the side of the loch and allow the animals to go and have a little swim around.