In the dark depths of the ocean, food can be so scarce that animals may go months or even years between meals. Yet one ...

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.

Going without food for even a single day feels difficult for most people, so the idea of surviving five years between meals ...

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, ...

They are over 30 centimetres long, weigh over a kilogram and look like Darth Vader: scientists at the University of Hanoi have discovered a previously unknown species of deep-sea isopod. Researchers ...

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A new species of giant isopod, Bathynomus yucatanensis Huang et al. via Journal of Natural History Giant isopods are like something out of a science fiction novel—these massive, armored crustaceans ...

Researchers have identified a new species of Bathonymus, the famed genera of deep-sea isopods whose viral internet fame has made them the most famous aquatic crustaceans since Sebastian of "The Little ...