Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters. Referred to by the researchers as a "supergiant," the ...

Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight. But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their ...

A 14-legged giant isopod is the highlight of ... the Dongsha Islands on the South China Sea. They are thought to be caught between 300 to 500 metres deep in the ocean. How parasitic worms wriggle ...

Antarctica is not the icy world scientists thought it was. A team of scientists recently compiled the most detailed map, yet, of liquid water across Antarctica. They found water in places where it ...

“Ogusokumushi,” or the deep-sea giant isopod called Bathynomus doederleinii by its scientific name, is always a favorite among aquarium visitors. Its body is about 10 centimeters ...

Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep ... a giant block of ice 78 kilometers long broke off the tongue of ice spilling into the sea from the Australian Antarctic Territory's Mertz ...

A 14-legged giant ... in deep-sea invertebrates at the National University of Tainan. “The best practice would be to do more research ... build a complete database, and then allow people to eat; it ...