A purchase at an urban Vietnamese fish market turned out to be a whole new species of giant isopod –with a bit of a dark side ...

"That a species as large as this could have stayed hidden for so long reminds us just how much work we still need to do to ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from fishermen and restaurants ...

A new isopod species has been discovered in a lab in Singapore, and it is massive, at least relative to other giant isopods.

Bathynomus vaderi grows to around 30 centimetres ... that the animals also live in other parts of the South China Sea. Giant isopods - of which B. vaderi is one - have become an expensive delicacy ...

Pictured: Newly identified giant isopod species Bathynomus vaderi. The creature's species name is a reference to how its head looks like the helmet of the evil Darth Vader in the "Star Wars ...