The giant isopod is a huge relative of the pill bug. These armored scavengers roam the ocean floor and can grow up to 20 inches long. With their rigid exoskeleton and eerie, twitching legs, they ...

The giant isopod The giant isopod is a sea creature related to crabs. It has a hard shell and many jointed legs. Its body is made of three parts: head, middle, and back.

8. Giant Isopod 8. Giant Isopod (image credits: unsplash) Imagine a pill bug the size of a football—now you’ve got the giant isopod. These creatures roam the ocean floor, scavenging for anything ...

In the shadowy depths of the ocean, giant isopods oversized relatives of pill bugs scavenge the seafloor with their armored bodies and 14 legs. These deep-sea crustaceans, reaching up to 2.5 feet ...

This is called deep-sea gigantism, where animals grow much bigger than their cousins in shallow waters. These creatures, like the colossal squid and giant isopod, thrive in a dark, cold, and food ...

In the video, you see an alligator carcass that was dropped over a mile onto the sea floor below, tens of miles off the coast of Mexico. It took just a day for deep sea scavengers to find it, and ...

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 ...

Bathynomus isopods are divided into two size-based groups, researchers said. Giant species are 5.9 inches or shorter, while supergiants are anything greater than 6.7 inches long.

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 ...