Cut open a supergiant isopod hauled up from nearly a kilometre down, and the first thing you notice is the stomach. It fills roughly two-thirds of the body cavity, packed tight with a finely ground, ...

The deep sea has no shortage of unusual creatures, from methane-eating spiders to shape-shifting octopuses. Among them are giant isopods—essentially bowling pin-sized pill bugs. Some of these curious ...

Going without food for even a single day feels difficult for most people, so the idea of surviving five years between meals sounds almost impossible. Yet that is exactly what the supergiant bathynomid ...