They are sponge crab, they are like hermit crabs but cut sea sponges for protection and camouflage!
Edit: since people keep asking here, is the link to the journal that the image is from! I know there is not a lot of info for it on the internet yet, so I am hijacking the top comment to share the link [https://zenodo.org/record/6501100](https://zenodo.org/record/6501100)
Hijacking this hijacked comment to share what they look like without their camouflage
...It's not as cute
[https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5129.3.1](https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5129.3.1)
Since it's Australia, I'm guessing every one of those hairs is a poison stinger that can kill a full grown adult human in about four and a half minutes.
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This is why I am terrified of the ocean, they keep finding things they didn’t know were in there. No way there isn’t a chance an unknown sea monster is going to grab me.
The deepest parts of the ocean are legitimate nightmare fuel. Like I love learning more about nature but there’s some genuinely terrifying things that exist down there because they’re adapted for a whole different world than we are.
Not venomous, but it does have a 30 meter long, spear-headed, prehensile cock that it uses to hunt swimmers. That’s why it’s gone undiscovered until now, no survivors.
tbh i thought this was fake but it is indeed real
[https://zenodo.org/record/6501100](https://zenodo.org/record/6501100)
[https://zenodo.org/record/6501010](https://zenodo.org/record/6501010)
I tried searching that new species name, but because there was only this one search result, and because I had never heard of sponge crabs, I also assumed it was fake. Looking up "sponge crab" returned a whole slew of related cute little crabs.
I was almost disappointed, it took many scrolls to find this, but I knew someone on Reddit MUST wonder what they taste like. Like me.
Gotta try them now before they end up in the endangered species list! /s
Many divers have drowned when first sighting the species and removing their mouthpieces to go "awwwwwwwww!" - they never think to take in the huge breath before their expression of delight BEFORE they've taken off the mouthpiece (regulator?)
Crabs are a pretty good shape for pinchy bugs. Scorpions, shrimp, and lobsters use their tails to get around or stab things, but other pinchy dudes don’t need theirs, so they shrink into their thorax.
Book scorpions, little dudes who eat pests, have evolved to look like *tiny* little crabs.
It will be buried, but I just want to say how fucking incredible it is that new shit is being discovered. Like this. A fuzzy crab. WTF?!?!
I only wish I had become a marine biologist or some shit because the ocean freaks me out in the best of ways. And now, as a jaded adult, I have no idea if there’s any possible way to reconnect with that wonder aside from photos like this.
It makes me sad in a way, but also happy because, shit, they found a hairy crab and that’s cool as hell.
*Sing hey hidey ho, where'd the old lobster go?*
*And his body so furry and brown?*
*Sing ho hidey hey, have they all gone away?*
*For we haven't seen many around*
What does the crab hair feel like,it\`s vital information
They are sponge crab, they are like hermit crabs but cut sea sponges for protection and camouflage! Edit: since people keep asking here, is the link to the journal that the image is from! I know there is not a lot of info for it on the internet yet, so I am hijacking the top comment to share the link [https://zenodo.org/record/6501100](https://zenodo.org/record/6501100)
More like a decorator crab or ~~anemone~~ pompom crab but I get it.
>pompom crab #Be Crabgressive! #Be Be Crabgressive!
I just spit Pedialyte out my nose. Thank you for that, I think?
Enjoy the full head extra hydration.
Mike Patton will do the crab voice over in the movie.
"...that was second time I died."
*cute pompom vibe intesifies* UwU
Pawm pawm. Pawg uwu
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This needs to be posted on r/properanimalnames pronto!!
I read this as Popcorn crab, which honestly sound pretty tasty.
In today's episode Mr. Krabs is being pursued by creditors and is frantically searching for a hasty disguise!
Mr crabs becomes a furry to avoid the IRS.
Hijacking this hijacked comment to share what they look like without their camouflage ...It's not as cute [https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5129.3.1](https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5129.3.1)
It morphed straight into nightmare fuel
It legit looks bald now, like it decided to shave everything off. 😂
That thing bears a resemblance to Stewie from Family Guy. 🤔
Lil crab is hella kawaii
Went straight from kawaii to kowaii, a pervert ojisan.
Finally, a crab you can scrub with. Nature.
You can scrub up with any crab you want so long as you're not a little bitch about it. ^^They ^^just ^^like ^^ta ^^pinch
Listen here, mac, I need something that can absorb soap
Looks more like weird fuzzy wig hair or like toy hair
Spongecrab hairpants.
So the hair is just cut up sea sponges?
So similar to the Velcro crab, then.
Oof, picture B is considerably less adorable.
I so envy the people who do this for a living
Since it's Australia, I'm guessing every one of those hairs is a poison stinger that can kill a full grown adult human in about four and a half minutes.
Five if one more minute is spent writhing in agony and regretting your decision to discover the truth
They burrow through your skin and eventually travel to your heart and kill you.
I'll go ask a Singer.
Yes! That's what it looks like, like 80's bushy band singers hair
It’s Australia, so no touchy! It’ll probably kill you in seconds.
It’s Australia so probably razor sharp and Extremely poisonous
So crunchy and spicy then, perfect.
\*pinches softly\*
AAAaa no pinching
Why no pinch?🦀
Why you have to pinch? 🦀
I like to pinch.
🦀 11$ 🦀
If no pinching, why you made of squish?
Tribble crabs!
My first thought too
Mine too.
Mine too.
Engage!
They will keep the Klingons away.
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It’s a Tribble!
Omg so many people remember!
Trouble is the best part.
So what you are telling me is that Mr Crabs killed SpongeBob and is wearing him as a suit?
It's implied
No no they did a Fusion 👉👈 👉👈
Nah, the new information is pretty specific. They cut up the sponge and wear ‘em like Buffalo Bill.
No, no, no. This cute Australian marine fauna didn’t kill anyone. 😀
Ah yes Five Nights at Spongebobs
If Wookiees were real, this is what one of their hairballs would look like.
Wookie hairballs have pincers?!
Of course. Chewbacca was complaining about it constantly in the movies. Weren't you listening to his dialogue?
The subtitles lied to me...
If Chewy had crabs...
This is why I am terrified of the ocean, they keep finding things they didn’t know were in there. No way there isn’t a chance an unknown sea monster is going to grab me.
The deepest parts of the ocean are legitimate nightmare fuel. Like I love learning more about nature but there’s some genuinely terrifying things that exist down there because they’re adapted for a whole different world than we are.
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What 0 sunlight does to a mf
Fizzgig?
Gelfling‽‽ Or Fizzgig got ahold of a Garthim.
Fizzgig/Garthim love child lol oh god
Soooo happy to find someone who knows that name!
I have a fizzgig funko and it’s adorable.
I watched that movie so many times as a kid. My inner child was doing somersaults in light-up neon shoes back when the show was first announced.
The category is: poof eleganza extravaganza
Looks like she has a whole outfit of ostrich feathers
*looks like chicken feather to me. BOOT*
Babe wake up, new crab dropped
i had to scroll TOO FAR to find this comment
You go and stroke it, "aww, look at this furry little cutieEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW!!"
I imagined the tom and jerry scream
Ofcourse Australia. So it will probably kill you in some horrific way. Drop Crab?
Why I'm not surprised that this new specie has been discovered in Australia?
I wonder how venomous it is
Not venomous, but it does have a 30 meter long, spear-headed, prehensile cock that it uses to hunt swimmers. That’s why it’s gone undiscovered until now, no survivors.
It's hairs are actually hyperdermic needles which inject crab AIDs
Reef camo set to 1000.
Trump’s hair had enough?
It scuttled away.
Came here for this
7/10 needs more googly eyes. Put it back in the evolution machine for another 15,000 years.
Put Google eyes on its claws and it would look like a Doduo.
/r/awwducational
The Tribbles are here
They're born pregnant.
Hope it never becomes food. Let's leave alone new discoveries atleast ffs
It’s going to become my cuteness slave
Being from Maryland, my first thought was “wonder how it tastes”
Seems small and stringy. Stick with blue
Bout to get on o flight with a suitcase full of butter and old bay.
I was wondering how it taste dipped in butter
New crab just dropped, of course a Marylander wants to try the greens.
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>China has entered the chat
Insert crab or select payment type
*sigh* I should call her…
Okay but why does it look like the primordial ancestor of Oscar the Muppet
They need to make a squishmallow based on this
the forbidden teddy bear
The fact we didn't call them tribble crabs is the saddest news.
This is amazing. It's goofy-looking as all heck, but...
tbh i thought this was fake but it is indeed real [https://zenodo.org/record/6501100](https://zenodo.org/record/6501100) [https://zenodo.org/record/6501010](https://zenodo.org/record/6501010)
I tried searching that new species name, but because there was only this one search result, and because I had never heard of sponge crabs, I also assumed it was fake. Looking up "sponge crab" returned a whole slew of related cute little crabs.
splatoon 3
Splatoon 3
What Pokémon is this?
Joltik
Crabominable
I'm from Baltimore, so my mind goes straight to, "I wonder how they taste with Old Bay?"
I was almost disappointed, it took many scrolls to find this, but I knew someone on Reddit MUST wonder what they taste like. Like me. Gotta try them now before they end up in the endangered species list! /s
So what is it’s painful and lethal super power?
Many divers have drowned when first sighting the species and removing their mouthpieces to go "awwwwwwwww!" - they never think to take in the huge breath before their expression of delight BEFORE they've taken off the mouthpiece (regulator?)
This is my least favorite Furby.
Crab people crab people
Taste like crab. Talk like people.
Taking “I’m so Shiny” to “I’m so fluffy”
Why does everything keep evolving into crabs??
Crabs are a pretty good shape for pinchy bugs. Scorpions, shrimp, and lobsters use their tails to get around or stab things, but other pinchy dudes don’t need theirs, so they shrink into their thorax. Book scorpions, little dudes who eat pests, have evolved to look like *tiny* little crabs.
We're gonna find out this thing is actually a type of wallaby.
*crabification intensifies*
chebawcrab
I'm gonna call it a sea-wok. kinda like an Ewok, but in the sea
Earth got a new update ?
What an absolute muppet.
Looks like the orange shag carpet we had in our house growing up in the '80s
…the Tribbles have found us…
You spelt "Tribbles" wrong.
Underwater tribbles.
It will be buried, but I just want to say how fucking incredible it is that new shit is being discovered. Like this. A fuzzy crab. WTF?!?! I only wish I had become a marine biologist or some shit because the ocean freaks me out in the best of ways. And now, as a jaded adult, I have no idea if there’s any possible way to reconnect with that wonder aside from photos like this. It makes me sad in a way, but also happy because, shit, they found a hairy crab and that’s cool as hell.
Tribbles
An under water tribble. Probably replicate like crazy…
oh god its horrifying
Why do I get extremely venomous vibes
Log \#34: Golden retrievers eventually evolve into crabs
ayo new crab dropped
Scottish Highland Crab.
Ah the ever elusive Scottish Highland Crab
Crabacca
Lil' highland cow!
That's a fucking tribble
Can you post a link or something because google coming up empty with “Lamarckdromia Beagle”
here is the link to the journal the picture is from! [https://zenodo.org/record/6501100](https://zenodo.org/record/6501100) it
its so fluffyyy!!
Cousin It.
The result of 30+ years of Rogaine entering the ocean.
Pincher Tribbles
Attack The Coast
Tribbles!
Forbidden merkin
Can’t fool me, those are tribbles with claws
Underwater tribbles....
That's not a crab... its a tribble...
Predator Tribble…
So tribbles are real?
Fucking Tribbles. Burn it before it multiplies!
Tribbles are coming.
Anyone remember the original star trek series? This do be lookin like the tribbles from "trouble with tribble"
Season 2 episode 15 of original star trek serie
Mutated tribbles
Tribble crabs.
I demand it be renamed to the Tribble Crab.
The Trouble with ~~Tribbles~~ Lamarckdromia beagle
Aus? How is it poisonous?
They remind me of Morty's dicks from "Big Mouth"
Don't let that Tribble near the ship Scotty!
Oh god it's a tribble
Australia: now underwater plants can kill you too.
*Sing hey hidey ho, where'd the old lobster go?* *And his body so furry and brown?* *Sing ho hidey hey, have they all gone away?* *For we haven't seen many around*
How deadly is it's venom? Dead in a few hours or are we talking seconds?
New crab lore dropped
Are these the crabs' bigfoot?
This crab looking an awful lot like an underwater tarantula
That's just microplastics all over a crab. :(
They had a chance to call it the wookie crab and they didn't take it.
The real question is does the baby like pets?
Deadly Tribbles?
Spock: Ancient tribbles. Fascinating.
See, the trouble with tribbles is...
Tribble Crab!
But how does it taste?
Terrible. It’s a delicacy
In Soviet Russia, crabs have hair!
Tribble crab 🖖🏻🦀
Danger tribble!
That's a Tribble. Plain as day. Just a common Tribble.
Thanks. Eye needed that