Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight. But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their ...

First discovered in 1879, these distant relatives of woodlice thrive in the cold, dark depths of the ocean, scavenging for food on the seafloor ...

As the head of the animal's carapace resembles the iconic scifi helmet adorned by Star Wars' infamous Darth Vader, Ng and team named the giant woodlice relative Bathynomus vaderi. The specimens ...

As the head of the animal's carapace resembles the iconic scifi helmet adorned by Star Wars' infamous Darth Vader, Ng and team named the giant woodlice relative Bathynomus vaderi. The specimens ...

In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of 'supergiant' isopods at a seaford market in Quy Nhơn City in Vietnam, intrigued by a burgeoning market for the deep sea crustaceans as a ...

They can be tiny like an insect or huge like the giant squid. Invertebrates are animals that don’t have a spine or backbone inside their body. Minibeasts, like woodlice and centipedes ...