The nearly 13-inch crustacean was brought to Germany from Puerto Rico in the 1980s, but its true identity remained a mystery until researchers took a closer look ...

A giant isopod from Puerto Rico, rediscovered in the depository of the University of Tübingen's Paleontological Collection, has turned out to be a previously unknown species. Subscribe to our ...

Two new deep-sea isopod species were described from Argentina’s continental slope, marking the family Katianiridae’s first documented occurrence in the southwestern Atlantic.

Scientists have identified a new species of trapdoor spider in Mauritius that can survive being submerged at high tide.

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A huge bug-like crustacean, roughly 12.7 inches (32.2 centimeters) long, spent over three decades misidentified as a known species as it sat inside the University of Tübingen in Germany.

A giant isopod caught in a trap about 1,640 feet (500 meters) down off Puerto Rico spent decades in a German university collection under the wrong name. A new study describes the dried female, which ...

At the Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka in Uehommachi, Osaka, an "Ocean Journey Afternoon Tea" in collaboration with the Toba ...

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The ocean is a mysterious place, and much of it is both unknown and terrifying. These creatures are perhaps the most ...

An integrative genetic and morphological study of the amphipod genus Liljeborgia supports two cryptic species within L.

A dried giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the late 1980s, and filed for decades in the University of Tübingen collection as Bathynomus giganteus, belongs to a species nobody had named. In a ...