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 ...

Terrifying, supergiant seabugs can be found underneath the ocean, but this one looks like the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader.

A 14-legged giant isopod is the highlight ... 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Dive into the mysterious depths of the ocean and discover nine bizarre deep-sea creatures with unique features, eerie ...

Deep-sea isopods found in markets and restaurants turned out to be a species new to science. Ng PKL, Sidabalok CM, Nguyen TS (2025) ZooKeys Along the coast of the South China Sea in Vietnam ...

First discovered in 1879, these distant relatives of woodlice thrive in the cold, dark depths of the ocean, scavenging for food on the seafloor ...

This disparity in size makes the discovery of such a huge specimen particularly ... the second recorded supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea. However, because these crustaceans ...