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.

A juvenile colossal squid has been caught on video for the first time in its natural deep-sea habitat. The footage was recorded last month near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic ...

Supergiant sea bugs, including B. vaderi ... Currently, there are only 11 known “supergiant” and nine “giant” Bathynomus species, with several awaiting formal description, according ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute ...