A goblin shark catapults its jaw out like a slingshot. A fish swims around with a perfectly clear skull. But these are real ...

In the deepest parts of the ocean, some creatures grow far larger than their relatives near the surface. This strange phenomenon, known as deep-sea gigantism, has produced enormous squid, giant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever played a roly-poly pill bug? No? Well, now you can in the inventive platformer Isopod: A Webbed Spinoff! Become a small-but-mighty wrecking ball of a bug in this physics-based platformer ...

The new Great Lakes Aquarium exhibit opens Friday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Lava to Lakes tells Minnesota’s origin story. The region was once covered by giant, ancient seas. The new ...

Deep sea ecosystems are some of the most mysterious and unexplored regions of the Earth that reside more than 650 feet below sea level while reaching depths of 36,000 feet. They are characterized by ...

This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...

Researchers exploring the wares of fishers in Vietnam have discovered a “supergiant” sea bug species that they've named for one of the most infamous movie villains of all time. The new find came after ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. However, the researchers observed that six of the samples had a noticeably different-shaped head and tail, and belonged to a species that was new ...