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The newly discovered yeti crab found living at the Dragon Vent in the south-west Indian Ocean

Transparent Crabs
And for biochemists I guess. These images show the process whereby Japanese scientists took your everyday chitinous crab carapace and simply put, made it transparent. This process involved treating the shell with lye, hydrochloric acid and ethyl alcohol to fully remove all the pigments from the shell. This just left the chitin structure which was reinforced using resin.
