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French Journal Says New Crustacean Found
Breitbart (AP) ^ | 3/7/2006 | AP staff

Posted on 03/07/2006 4:35:43 PM PST by wjersey

PARIS

Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blonde fur, French researchers said Tuesday.

Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new genus and new family for it.

A team of American-led divers found the animal in waters 7,540 feet deep at a site 900 miles south of Easter Island last year, according to Michel Segonzac of the French Institute for Sea Exploration, or IFREMER.

The new crustacean is described in the journal of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The animal is white and 5.9 inches long, about the size of a salad plate.

In what Segonzac described as a "surprising characteristic," the animal's pincers are covered with sinuous, hair-like strands. The diving expedition was organized by Robert Vrijenhoek of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.


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To: wjersey

They should have called it Kiwa hirsuta elvis.
And what are those things, claws or fortune cookies?


61 posted on 03/07/2006 7:26:49 PM PST by Graymatter (J31-F28-M31...why not J30-F30-M30?)
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To: wjersey

Odd looking but most marine life of the very deep are odd looking.


62 posted on 03/07/2006 7:28:44 PM PST by Dustbunny (Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers)
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To: wjersey

Depends how you cook it!


63 posted on 03/07/2006 7:45:57 PM PST by Don Carlos (El que no le gusta vino es un animal!)
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To: Publius

"The ortolan."

There's a scene in the movie "Gigi" in which Gigi's great-aunt teaches her how to eat.....ortolan. The French eat some odd things, that's for sure.


64 posted on 03/08/2006 2:52:17 AM PST by Mila
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To: Dustbunny
Behold the Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus)!


66 posted on 03/08/2006 7:29:18 AM PST by fzx12345 (Three lefts don't make a right; they invent one.)
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To: Bernard Marx
The ortolan is drowned in Armagnac before being baked for 6-8 minutes.

Head cheese?!?!? You dont know what youre missing!

67 posted on 03/08/2006 9:21:33 AM PST by gnarledmaw (I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Yes, I read that previously and nearly posted it. As for head cheese, I only feigned ignorance. I've eaten it and it ain't bad but, like blood sausage, you don't want to think too much about it.


68 posted on 03/08/2006 11:22:21 AM PST by Bernard Marx (Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
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To: Bernard Marx

I wonder if some kind of sparrow could be marketed as New World Ortolan to the same people who buy foie gras in cans...


69 posted on 03/08/2006 3:03:48 PM PST by gnarledmaw (I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
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To: gnarledmaw
Why not? I once researched an article I planned to write about American snail-farming and discovered we're exporting most of our harvested snails to western Europe -- they're so popular there they've nearly eaten them to extinction.

Where I lived the snails were miserable pests in the garden. I always threatened to take in a bunch of French foreign exchange students if only they'd harvest and eat my escargot. Most snails here on the West Coast are actually European brown snails. They were imported originally for culinary use but escaped and are now a scourge. Eat More Snails!

70 posted on 03/08/2006 4:12:26 PM PST by Bernard Marx (Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
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To: PoorMuttly
They found your Drivers License!

,,, yeee-ha! And I've been shaking my moneymaker to raise taxi fares home without it!

71 posted on 03/09/2006 1:00:34 PM PST by shaggy eel
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To: wjersey
The animal is white and 5.9 inches long, about the size of a salad plate.

,,, at last, a reason to use a salad plate. Good for the French, finding this creature. It may be something to replace all the sealife they've killed with their south Pacific nuclear testing over the years.

72 posted on 03/09/2006 1:03:15 PM PST by shaggy eel
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To: shaggy eel

It probably didn't exist before the tests. It may have been a seagull....or a snorkeling tourist!

'Does look rather yummy though. It may make a tasty side dish to all those crunchy Orcs we've been eating.


73 posted on 03/10/2006 2:46:14 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." - G.K.Chesterton)
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To: PoorMuttly

,,, I'm all for a bit on the side Muttly! A would be lobster in a fur coat - gotta have one.


74 posted on 03/10/2006 10:08:20 PM PST by shaggy eel
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To: shaggy eel

Oh...I thought it was a yellow monkey with a helmet.

Nevermind.


75 posted on 03/11/2006 8:11:09 AM PST by PoorMuttly ("He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." - G.K.Chesterton)
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