Photo: Extreme New Species Discovered by Sea-Life Survey

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The blind, white, crablike creature dubbed the "yeti crab" was just one of many new sea creatures discovered this year by the international Census of Marine Life ocean survey. The census is now in its sixth year and seeks to record all life, living and extinct, in the oceans by 2010.

Photograph by Ifremer/A. Fifis © 2006, Courtesy of the Census of Marine Life

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