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Squat lobster

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Squat lobster

Scientists found this small, spiny crustacean living between 2 and 3 kilometres under the sea on a seamount east of Hawke Bay.

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Ashley Rowden, Sea floor – Life on the deep sea floor, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8955/squat-lobster (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ashley Rowden, published 2 March 2009.