1. Giant isopods aren’t bugs. They’re crustaceans, ... One giant isopod in Japan went for five years without eating a single bite before dying in 2014. That same year, ...

Scientists have discovered a new giant isopod species among the sea creatures held in a Japanese aquarium. This cream-colored crustacean was originally mistaken for its larger relative, called ...

About 1 million species of animals live in the ocean. They should make room for one more: a nearly foot-long yellow isopod that thrives at the bottom of the sea. Identified as Bathonymus ...

A group of Taiwanese, Japanese, and Australian researchers set out to describe the new species of giant isopod and distinguish it from the bathynomus giganteus, the giant isopods found throughout ...

About 1 million species of animals live in the ocean. They should make room for one more: a nearly foot-long yellow isopod that thrives at the bottom of the sea. Identified as Bathonymus ...

Sighing at the news of a huge hike in electricity rates and being conscious of the need to cut back, I wondered what we could learn from the giant isopod. --The Asahi Shimbun, May 19 ...

Giant isopods like Cirolana darthvaderi are fascinating examples of deep-sea adaptation. These creatures thrive in extreme environments, where food is scarce and pressure is immense.

These animals are usually found about 170 to 2,140 metres deep in the ocean, with 80 per cent of them living at a depth of 365 to 730 metres, said Taiwan’s Animal Planet on a Facebook page.

But, life still prevails in the giant hole in the ocean floor some 2,500 feet below the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers have discovered a new species of the mysterious deep-sea isopod Bathonymus in ...

A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to the facehuggers from “Alien” has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico. The bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of giant isopod ...