The deep seas have long captured human imagination, with their eerie, dark depths and mysterious creatures. However, what we once imagined as mythical sea monsters, such as the Kraken or giant sea ...

Giant isopods are close relatives of rolly pollies and "pill bugs," with a few adaptations for living on the ocean floor in the deep, cold waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

“But the giant isopods seemed to find soft spots in the hide on the abdomen and in the armpits.” From the top, an isopod looks like a gargantuan version of the pill-bug, a land-dwelling cousin.

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The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly described species of giant isopod found in Southeast Asian waters Nguyen Thanh Son. Move aside, lobster—a newly described giant isopod from Vietnam is now ...

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Giant isopods (Bathynomus giganteus) are carnivous crustaceans that live at ocean depths ranging from 550 feet (170 meters) to 7,020 feet (2,140 meters).

The so-called roly poly bug is the newest species of deep-sea isopod. ... Booralana nickorum, measuring a mere 2.17 inches, stands as a smaller relative compared to the giant isopod.