Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family ...

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Pillbugs and sowbugs are not bugs at all. Unlike our other garden inhabitants, they are a type of crustacean called an isopod. They are more closely related to lobsters and shrimp than to any insect.

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria may be part of the secret.

In the unexplored depths of The Bahamas, a newfound animal emerges—meet Booralana nickorum, the latest addition to the animal kingdom. This recently classified species belongs to the cirolanid isopod ...

A nearly foot-long giant isopod specimen is a new crustacean species. It lives in the sea, eats dead whales, and is related to roly poly bugs. Scientists discovered a new species of giant isopod that ...

They curl into a ball, carry their babies in a pouch, and aren’t even insects. Meet the roly poly. Roly polies aren’t insects — they’re crustaceans, and they have more in common with kangaroos than ...