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 sports a ...
In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of 'supergiant' isopods at a seaford market in Quy Nhơn City in Vietnam, intrigued by a burgeoning market for the deep sea crustaceans as a ...
In 1941, two UC Berkeley graduate students recorded 31 species living in a mussel bed on Dillon Beach. In 2019, PhD candidate ...
Isopods belong to an order containing around 10,000 species that inhabit both land and marine environments. Their sizes vary widely, from a few millimeters to nearly 20 inches (500 mm) in length.
"There is an urgent need to better understand our deep-sea biodiversity." Scientists make wild discovery while exploring deep ...
“I’ve always liked weird and wonderful creatures, whether it’s on land or underwater,” he told ... An anemonefish with a tongue-biter isopod parasite peering out of its mouth, in Lembeh ...
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. So far, the new species has only been ...