The Great Lakes Aquarium welcomed three giant isopods over the summer as part of its new Lava to Lakes exhibit. They’re named after the three deepest point in the ocean: Challenger, Horizon, and Ebden ...

It was just another normal day at the restaurant—until a giant isopod showed up. The creepy crawler sent everyone into shock, causing chaos as it moved through the room. This video captures the wild ...

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 ...

This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...

At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers, resembling supersized woodlice, were ...

Researchers exploring the wares of fishers in Vietnam have discovered a “supergiant” sea bug species that they've named for one of the most infamous movie villains of all time. The new find came after ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. However, the researchers observed that six of the samples had a noticeably different-shaped head and tail, and belonged to a species that was new ...

Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from fishermen and restaurants in Vietnam to study the growing popularity of the creatures as a local ...