<p><strong>Its fuzzy, winter-white coat might look at home in the Himalaya, but the yeti crab was discovered skittering around hydrothermal vents about a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) under the South Pacific off <a id="uazo" title="Easter Island (map)" href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=r&amp;c=-27.131017857360717, -109.3419798463583&amp;z=9">Easter Island (map)</a> in March 2005.<br></strong></p><p><strong>The 6-inch (15-centimeter), blind crustacean—officially <em>Kiwa hirsuta—</em>is among the more than 6,000 new species discovered during the <a id="woid" title="Census of Marine Life" href="http://www.coml.org/">Census of Marine Life</a>, a ten-year effort to document all sea life that concluded Monday. </strong></p><p>(See <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101004-census-of-marine-life-new-species-oceans-science/">"Six-hundred-year-Old Worms Among Surprises of Ten-year Sea Survey."</a>)</p><p>The project's 500-plus expeditions have also amassed a visual legacy as unique as the organisms uncovered—from which National Geographic News has selected these images as the 13 best of the census. (<a id="v-8y" title="Read more about the yeti crab." href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0309_060309_yeti_crab.html">Read more about the yeti crab.</a>)</p>