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Kevin’s wonderful post on the Giant Isopod inspired me to post on a topic I have long pondered. Frequent readers of DSN know that I am fond of Sylvia Earle and the topic of body size. Honestly, it is ...

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 ...

What I want to discuss, and I use this word specifically as after 10 years contemplation I seem no closer to an answer, is why the Giant Isopod is, well, giant? Mosely noted in 1880 Other [animals] ...

From Japan comes news of a giant isopod that knows all there is to know about the hunger game. How else to explain the fasting behavior of the animal that, his minders say, hasn't eaten in more than 1 ...

All kinds of fascinating discoveries are likely lying in wait for us in the deep sea. Now scientists have pulled a new monster out of the waters off the coast of Indonesia. The creature is a new ...

A brand new species of giant isopod was discovered in a survey off the coast of Indonesia. There are now 20 species of these creatures that have been documented, but many more may remain undiscovered.

The ocean is terrifying. It’s full of weird animals that would put even the most twisted science fiction writers to shame. But it’s also full of beauty and wonder. Some of those very same creatures ...

One of those creatures is the giant isopod. These can be found in Animal Crossing and can go for a lot of bells, so they are a good one to look out for. Here's the complete guide to the giant isopod ...

Have you ever played a roly-poly pill bug? No? Well, now you can in the inventive platformer Isopod: A Webbed Spinoff! Become a small-but-mighty wrecking ball of a bug in this physics-based platformer ...