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 ...

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build a complete database, and then allow people to eat; it would be better that way,” he added. Isopods are invertebrates – animals without backbones – that belong to the group known as ...

And true to this moniker, it has a voracious appetite that fascinates anyone who watches it eat. Let’s say a dead whale sinks to the seabed. The isopod would immediately eat, eat and then eat ...