There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem strange to us on land. Giant isopods can live 500 metres ... scuttling about in the garden - albeit distant cousins. The largest isopods are ...

A newly identified species of deep-sea isopod has been discovered off the coast of Vietnam, earning its name, Bathynomus ...

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 ...

In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of 'supergiant' isopods at a seaford market in Quy Nhơn City in ...

Isopods belong to an order containing around 10,000 species that inhabit both land and marine environments ... represent the largest members of this order. The name vaderi is inspired by the ...

Supergiant sea bugs, including B. vaderi, are members of the isopod family, characterized by their hard, protective ...