A giant isopod at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah. | cifraser1, Flickr // CC by SA 2.0 And it’s all in the eyes. Giant isopods have widely spaced, fixed compound eyes with more ...

The recent study described Bathynomus yucatanensis, a giant isopod subspecies that can grow up to 1.64 feet from oblong head to rounded tail. The team’s work is published in the Journal of ...

More facts about isopods Isopods are invertebrates – animals without backbones – that belong to the group known as crustaceans, which also includes crabs and shrimp. There are about 10,000 ...

Recent years have seen giant isopods like B. vaderi go from being merely the accidental bycatch of local fishermen to an expensive delicacy elevated above even lobster, the so-called king of seafood.

By early 2023, the team realized that these giant isopods belonged to a species that had not been described by scientists. Bathynomus vaderi is considered a supergiant isopod, reaching about 12.7 ...

Newly-discovered giant sea bug resembling Darth Vader isn't as scary as it looks The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters, though the size of B ...

Like all giant isopods, of which there are around 20 species, B. Vaderi is a carnivore and prefers feeding on crustaceans, fish, squid, and even whale carcasses.

The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly described species of giant isopod found in Southeast Asian waters Nguyen Thanh Son. Move aside, lobster—a newly described giant isopod from Vietnam is now ...

Researcher Peter Ng examining giant isopods at a seafood market in Hanoi, Vietnam. Nguyen Thanh Son. Ng says the team chose the species’ name because of its resemblance to Darth Vader’s mask, ...