A giant isopod at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah. | cifraser1, Flickr // CC by SA 2.0 And it’s all in the eyes. Giant isopods have widely spaced, fixed compound eyes with more ...

A new isopod species has been discovered in a lab in Singapore, and it is massive, at least relative to other giant isopods. It's named after Darth Vader. The post New ‘Supergiant’ Isopod ...

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 ...

The first movie was in 1977, in my youth, and it was cool,” says Ng. “But we all agree that the face of Bathynomus looks so much like Darth Vader that it just had to be named after the Sith ...

As if Bathynomus weren’t big enough in general, Bathynomus vaderi are specifically “supergiant” isopods that can reach 12.8 inches in length and weigh more than 2.2 pounds.

The recent study described Bathynomus yucatanensis, a giant isopod subspecies that can grow up to 1.64 feet from oblong head to rounded tail. The team’s work is published in the Journal of ...

Recent years have seen giant isopods like B. vaderi go from being merely the accidental bycatch of local fishermen to an expensive delicacy elevated above even lobster, the so-called king of seafood.

Newly-discovered giant sea bug resembling Darth Vader isn't as scary as it looks The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters, though the size of B ...