The study's co-lead author, Johanna Weston, a hadal ecologist at WHOI, explained, "It was exciting to see this beautiful animal actively interacting with Sargassum, deep in the ocean. This isopod ...

In the shadowy depths of the ocean, giant isopods oversized relatives of pill bugs scavenge the seafloor with their armored ...

enigmatica has also been observed in the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic ... of the subumbrella (up inside the bell) we can see an isopod, Anuropus bathypelagicus that is often (always perhaps ...

Head down deep enough into the ocean and you might just find the lord ... a brand-new species of isopod, dubbed Haploniscus hades. Many of these unusual creatures are also “cryptic”, belonging ...

The ocean is full of bizarre creatures ... At over 12 inches long and weighing more than 2 pounds, this giant isopod looks like it crawled straight out of a sci-fi horror film.

Pictured: Newly identified giant isopod species Bathynomus vaderi ... They scuttle around the seafloor in the pitch-black depths of the ocean, scavenging on the remains of fish, crab, sponges ...

Patricia Esquete inspects a suspected new species of isopod that was sampled from the bottom of the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) That's true even in the ...

It’s not a comforting picture, but it’s one you might come across if you ever venture into the depths of the ocean. Recently, scientists identified a new species of these giant isopods and ...

The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters. Referred to by the researchers as a "supergiant," the largest of the specimens weighed more than 2.2 pounds ...

Learn more about some recent new species discoveries: In the ancient Roman mine underneath Carmona, Spain, researchers discovered a new species of isopod named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis ...

The dark side of the ocean: a newly discovered species of giant isopod has been named after the Star Wars villain Darth Vader because of its resemblance to him. The deep-sea isopod of the genus ...

Intrigued, they captured a few of these animals and, after taking a closer look, realized they’d discovered a new species: Baeticoniscus carmonaensis, or the Carmona isopod. A Baeticoniscus ...