He's best known for his role as Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch. But David Hasselhoff has a new claim to fame, after lending his name to a new species of crab. The 'Hoff Crab' gained its nickname thanks ...

(CBS) "The Hoff" is no longer just the nickname for actor David Hasselhoff -- now it is being used to identify a new species of crab scientist discovered that has a hairy Hasselhoff-like chest on the ...

Male crabs of a species named after David Hasselhoff grow bigger claws than females so they can fight each other for a mate, according to a new study. Scientists from the universities of Portsmouth ...

The blind Yeti Crab "Kiwa tyleri" has been revealed this week in a paper describing it for the first time ever. This lovely white-colored creature lives in the Antarctic while its relatives live in ...

Yeti crabs don't comb their hair to look good — they do it because they're hungry. These bizarre deep-sea animals grow their food in their own hair, trapping bacteria and letting it flourish there ...

The Hoff may be known for patrolling Los Angeles beaches, and now his namesake, a new type of hairy-chested "Hoff" crab is among six new species that have been discovered living in the bizarre ...

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