“Surprisingly, these isopods can be seen carrying something more common on the ocean’s surface: large pieces of Sargassum ...

There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem strange to us on land. Giant isopods can live 500 metres or more below the ocean surface. But these 14-legged goliaths are relatives of the ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Giant isopods are a distant cousin of crabs and prawns. They are the largest among the thousands of species in the crustacean group, said the NOAA Ocean Exploration on its website. These animals ...

“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 ...

But how this works, and how pernicious the problem is, has been harder to study underwater in the ocean. Eelgrass ... The researchers show that isopods and snails create open wounds on eelgrass ...