The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in ... The researchers formally described the novel sea bug in a paper published this month in the journal ZooKeys.

These arthropods are much larger than your usual pill bug. They can reach more than 30 centimetres ... in Japan reportedly survived for five years without eating. Giant isopods express deep-sea ...

It took just a day for deep sea scavengers to find it, and soon the alligator’s lifeless body was covered in large pill-bug-like creatures called isopods. They’re related to the tiny pill bugs ...

Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) 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 ...

sea, sky “It is so attractive because of its appearance – it looks very cute,” said the 37-year-old owner of the restaurant, who wanted to be identified only as Mr Hu, as he held up a giant ...

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of another species of giant isopod found in Vietnam (B. jamesi) that weighed 2.62 kg from a seafood market in Hanoi, October 2024.