A 14-legged giant isopod is the highlight of a new dish at a ramen restaurant in Taipei, and it has people queuing up. Last month, the shop, called The Ramen Boy, launched the limited-edition ...

Giant isopods spend the majority of their time on the seabed, waiting for food to fall from higher in the water column The largest isopods are the species Bathynomus giganteus. When it comes to their ...

Giant isopods are a bit of a delicacy in some parts ... known locally as bọ biển or ‘sea bugs,’ has been fished for food apparently since 2017,” researchers wrote in a study detailing ...

Bathynomus vaderi is a kind of isopod, a group that also includes woodlice. It can reach lengths of over 30 centimetres and weights in excess of a kilogram. Read more Endangered skates saved from ...

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of another species of giant isopod found in Vietnam (B. jamesi) that weighed 2.62 kg from a seafood market in Hanoi, October 2024.

energy-saving lifestyle that doesn’t lead to wastefulness even if one eats a lot like a giant isopod. This is how the creature survives in the deep sea, where food is scarce. "It’s interesting ...