This specimen, a rare isopod genus Anuropus Beddard, 1886 in the family Anuropidae, was caught in a mesopelagic or midwater tow during a Fisheries Oceanography research voyage to the Chatham Rise. A ...

Image via Unsplash Resembling a massive roly-poly or pill bug, the giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) dwells in the cold, dark depths of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Growing up to 16 ...

This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...

At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers, resembling supersized woodlice, were ...

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SINGAPORE - A newly discovered species of aquatic supergiant isopod is being widely sold at food stalls and restaurants in Vietnam, causing scientists to worry that such isopods could be overfished ...

(CNN) — Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from fishermen and restaurants in Vietnam to study the growing popularity of the creatures as a ...