Giant ocean-dwelling isopods are on the menu in Vietnam. Scientists discovered a new species among specimens captured for the ...

Discover Bathynomus vaderi, a newly identified giant isopod species from Vietnam’s deep seas, named after Darth Vader.

What has 14 legs, lives at the bottom of the sea, and looks like Darth Vader? It's a newly discovered species of supergiant ...

Giant isopods, which belong to the Bathynomus genus, can grow to be over 11 inches, but the biggest ones reach nearly 20 ...

Researchers newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species off the coast of south-central Vietnam, but scientists worry ...

A marine crustacean that looks like Darth Vader’s helmet has been recognised as a new species, but it could be under threat from trawling due to its popularity in Vietnamese restaurants ...

Bathynomus vaderi are considered a delicacy in Vietnam where they have become expensive additions to dishes with some ...

The Calvert Marine Museum recently announced a groundbreaking paleontological discovery in which a coprolite — fossilized ...

In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of 'supergiant' isopods at a seaford market in Quy Nhơn City in ...

The Calvert Marine Museum recently announced a groundbreaking paleontological discovery in which a coprolite — fossilized ...

Isopods rely on food falling from closer to the surface ... They are scavengers and would eat any of the falling marine snow and what's enveloped within it - so things like crab flesh and marine worms ...

the marine biologist who viewed Mr Kanizay's sample, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Dr Thomson said isopods also eat mainly dead fish and marine worms, as well as living fish. Both ...