When you peer at it from the front, black compound eyes and armor-like shells fill your field of vision. Its body length can exceed 40 centimeters at its largest. Its name is the giant isopod.In front ...

A hefty, armor-plated crustacean pulled from fish markets and deep-sea trawls off Vietnam has been confirmed as a species new ...

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New species of giant isopod identified in Vietnam can reach 32.5 centimeters and reinforces how little is known about deep-sea biodiversity. A marine creature capable of exceeding one kilogram and ...

A kilometer down in the ocean, football-sized roly-polies slowly clamber along the seafloor. Their metabolism is so slow that they can go years between meals. Now, researchers have found a genetic ...

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The Great Lakes Aquarium welcomed three giant isopods over the summer as part of its new Lava to Lakes exhibit. They’re named after the three deepest point in the ocean: Challenger, Horizon, and Ebden ...

It was just another normal day at the restaurant—until a giant isopod showed up. The creepy crawler sent everyone into shock, causing chaos as it moved through the room. This video captures the wild ...

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface. Sometimes it's called the midnight zone, because it's too deep for... The giants lurking in the deep sea The bathypelagic ...