Mummy Yeti

The new 'Mummy 3' movie trailer is out and I snagged this quick shot of the yeti from it:



Update: For a better look, check out Cryptomundo's post about it.

Not Yeti Friday - The Brute

The Brute was a short-lived comic book in the 1970's.



It featured a blue-skinned Neanderthal monster named The Brute.

He was a lot like the yeti.

He was thawed from ice in 1975 and went on a rampage and killed people. That was basically the plot.





The Brute *loved* toy balls.



So it was really serendipitous that the super-villain's device to take over the world looked like a toy ball. The Brute went right for it, foiling his plans. Go The Brute!

Ode to the Yeti Crab

Check out the first video listed on this page to view the yeti crab in action, scuttling along the ocean floor.

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The yeti crab is not just a new species. It is a new genus and family, too.

Since it's a hairy, blind albino lurking in the darkness of the deeps, the scientists could have easily nicknamed it the Marine Morlock.

But they love them the yeti.

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Here is a snippet from the article "Encyclopedias of Life: From Diderot to the Yeti Crab" (FASEB Journal, Weissmann, Vol. 21 August 2007) about the creature's discovery:

"The crab was a serendipitous finding in the course of
a 2005 expedition designed to discover how creatures
found in deep hydrothermal vents in one part of an
ocean can colonize other vents in vastly distant parts.

To this end, an international team of marine biologists
probed the ocean floor, 7200 feet down, at a site 1000
miles south of Easter Island in the Pacific. They were at
the end of a six-hour dive in a deep submersible vehicle
called 'Alvin,' a craft best known for exploring the
sunken Titanic, when they struck scientific gold.

Michel Segonzac, from the Institut Francais de Recherche
pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) in Brest,
noticed unusually large, half-foot long, albino creatures
in areas where warm water from geothermal vents was
seeping into the ocean floor. The pilot of the Alvin,
Anthony Tarantino of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (where Alvin was developed) suctioned one
of the blind, lobster-like creatures into the vehicle by
means of a vacuum-like hose known as the 'slurp gun'.

It took less than a year of morphologic and molecular
genetic analysis for Segonzac and his associates to
ascertain that they had found not only a new species of
an unknown genus, but—bigger still in the world of
taxonomy—an entirely new family of crustaceans. They
called the new family Kiwaidae (from Kiwa, the goddess
of shellfish in Easter Island mythology), and the crab’s
new Latin name became Kiwa hirsuta. But among
marine biologists, the crab immediately became known
as the 'Yeti crab,' after the hirsute snowman of Himalaya
legend. It seemed better than calling the creature
a Hairy Goddess."



- Alvin the Submarine (previously of the Titanic)?
- Easter Island?
- A "slurp gun"?
- Hairy Goddess?



...it makes for quite a story!

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I have read that the yeti crab were seen placing their hairy claws over the hydrothermal vents. Scientists think it's possible they are doing this in order to harvest the bacteria found in their hairs for future consumption. Yes, you read that right, the yeti crab may be bacteria farmers.

Is there anything they're not?!

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The folks at Grandgood used the adjective "yeti crab" to describe their podcast featuring a mix tape of unclassifiable music.

Perhaps this will get picked up as a term. Something that is "yeticrab" will mean anything unclassifiable. Later, it will mean non-conformist... and eventually be synonymous with 'cool'.

"That is way yeticrab, dude!"



The yeti crab is way yeticrab in my book.

White Tea the Yeti

White Tea is a plush sold by a purple octopus named Dr. Perfect.

White Tea was designed by Brian Gubicza and fashioned in plush form by Jen Bennett Gubicza, both very talented.

On a personal note, "White Tea" is probably the best name for a yeti I've ever heard.

They eat people

These are Snow Beasts.

From the gallery of pokedstudio.

What Yeti Does When Wanted

This Threadless t-shirt design by Jean-sébastien Deheeger illustrates what yeti does when confronted with Wanted posters depicting his mug shot:

- He defiles them!

- To thwart his pursuers!

- And further elude capture!


Aces!

Not Yeti Friday - Megaloman

A tv show devoted to Megaloman aired on Japanese TV in 1979.



Look at his long white hair.

Is he a yeti underneath that suit and mask?

Uh, probably not.





Megaloman has a similar origin story to Superman's. He is also known as Honô No Senshi, or Warrior of Flame, because he can fling fire out of his hair.



Trivia on Wikipedia is interesting:

"Megaloman has gained popularity on the Internet because of his long-hair (unconventional among sentai armored super-heroes) and especially because his name sounds like 'megalomaniac'. This was most obvious among French-speakers, as French for megalomaniac is 'mégalomane' which pronounces almost exactly like 'Megaloman'."



Above is a fan in a dress-up disguise.




MEGALOMAN, WE LOVE YOU!

We can't get enough of you. We are Megalomaniacs.