New Crab Species Found

This is one of the many species that scientists went exploring in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument this fall. It got blue eyes and an orange jaw. It's beautiful.


In addition to this anemone hermit crab, scientists found several potentially new species of corals, sea stars, snails, and clams. The researchers discovered over a hundred species never before seen in French Frigate Shoals and many more that had never been recorded in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or, in some cases, the entire Hawaiian island chain>>