All kinds of fascinating discoveries are likely lying in wait for us in the deep sea. Now scientists have pulled a new monster out of the waters off the coast of Indonesia. The creature is a new ...

A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to the facehuggers from "Alien" has been identified off the Gulf of Mexico. A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to ...

A new isopod species has been discovered by researchers in a lab in Singapore, and it is massive, at least relative to other giant isopods. Its discoverers apparently have a sense of humor, because ...

Scientists recently trapped a giant isopod off the coast of Mexico, and after studying its anatomy and DNA, they determined that the crustacean is an entirely new species. Deep sea isopods dwell on ...

Across the internets a craze is sweeping. We here at DSN are calling it Isopocalypse 2010 (stay up to date using the Twitter hashtag #isopocalypse2010). Things got so crazy over the last two days with ...

About 1 million species of animals live in the ocean. They should make room for one more: a nearly foot-long yellow isopod that thrives at the bottom of the sea. Identified as Bathonymus yucatanensis, ...

A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to the facehuggers from “Alien” has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico. The bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of giant isopod, ...