November 17th, 2008 
What are you doing here? Zooillogix hosts a sweet photo gallery of "spectacular" new species from the Census of Marine Life, calling CoML "the gift that keeps on giving". Most of the new species are diminutive crustaceans. Here’s my favorite, a blind lobster in the genus Thaumastochelopsis.- PJE
With that long claw, blind lobster could probably make the Flintstones as Wilma’s hair curler.
Mommy, the long claw is scaring me!
It would take, like, forever to pick the meat out of that!!
SQUAT LOBSTER!
Everybody had matching towelsss!
It’s rock lobster not squat lobster [unnecessary invective removed-KAZ].
Anyway, this thing looks bad-ass.
Greg,
Before passing judgement on others, before belittling the disabled, follow the link to the photo gallery and see the squat lobster for yourself. Oh, and pass the tanning butter.
Ok kids, listen you both are wrong. It is a pincer lobster, the only other one described from this genus is Thaumastochelopsis wardi, or the Australian pincer lobster. Squat lobsters are not lobsters, they are in the infraorder Anomura, whereas the pincer lobster is in the group of true lobsters under the infraorder Astacidea. These are fairly high taxonomic level differences.
OK, resume commenting.
You people have absolutely NO sense of humor. Way to run off an avid reader.
Greg is a total jerk, by the way.
BY THE WAY
I was referring to the ZOOILLOGIX link that you posted which DOES include a SQUAT LOBSTER.
So you can all eat it….not a squat lobster, but it.
Drat. I was hoping for lobster for breakfast.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/storm_gallery/90755.jpg
You know, come to think of it, there IS a lot of sushi in my D&D game. ;)
Wait, I’m confused. Does “it” refer to the squat lobster, rock lobster or pincer lobster? Can I eat a Maine Lobster instead?
I think in this instance, “it” is referring to the kraken.
You must eat the kraken!
Anyone else suddenly craving calamari, then?
I just saw this one over at NatGeo: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html
“Swim away!! Swim away!!”
Sorry Aeolius. Nat Geo is trying to make headlines with old news. We showed this video here http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/08/one_question_squid_quiz.php. I think the video is about a year or a little less old. Not sure why Nat Geo is trying to make an old story theirs. Perhaps they pay enough attention…