W e humans bloomin' love a flower. Sniffing them, looking at them, lopping them off and popping them in vases. On land, there ...

As the head of the animal's carapace resembles the iconic scifi helmet adorned by Star Wars' infamous Darth Vader, Ng and team named the giant woodlice relative Bathynomus vaderi. The newly described ...

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. The foot-long crustacean has been named Bathynomus vaderi and ...

The first experiment showed that N. abundans ubiquitously accepted all five species of land isopods as prey, and did not accept any other additional item offered. The second experiment showed that the ...

Beware the creatures of the deep. While most people worry about the big scary things in the ocean such as sharks and orcas, if you're an isopod living down there it’s the pink, fluffy-looking ...

AT present in England there are only two dozen species of these little land crustaceans on record. The number, combined with their love of obscurity, may remind us of the regal feast at which four ...

I have polled my coworkers here in the ACNC education office and we have developed a highly official hierarchy of isopod names. Potato bugs can refer to any land isopods, whether they can roll or not.

These non-roly-polies have a few different names. I have polled my coworkers here in the ACNC education office and we have developed a highly official hierarchy of isopod names. Potato bugs can refer ...

Isopods, crustaceans mistaken for bugs, studied by researchers in dietary preferences. They choose soil crust over plant litter, aided by microbes for digestion, revealing dietary intricacies.

Perhaps the most infamous example of this deep-sea gigantism is the giant squid, capable of attaining lengths of over 40 feet and possibly even longer should it stretch out its tremendous tentacles.