This fossil discovery indicates that isopods’ exoskeletons were capable of passing through a host’s digestive tract relatively intact, revealing a unique trait in ancient marine ecosystems ...

WHO: Jason Osborne, of Odessa, who scuba dives across the country looking for ancient marine life. WHAT: A newly discovered genus and species of parasitic marine isopod, known as Calverteca ...

The Calvert Marine Museum recently announced a groundbreaking paleontological discovery in which a coprolite — fossilized feces — containing the impression of a new genus and species of ...

Deep beneath the waves of the South China Sea, a fascinating creature has surfaced—Bathynomus vaderi, a newly discovered species of giant isopod. This "supergiant" crustacean reaches lengths of ...

The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly named marine isopod. Nguyen Thanh Son. A large crustacean that lives in the sea off Vietnam has been designated as a new species and named after Darth Vader.

He found a parasitic marine isopod in a coprolite, or fossilized poop. To stream NewsWest9 on your phone, you need the NewsWest9 app. Download the NewsWest9 app. More Videos. Next up in 5.

Parasitic isopods, particularly those within the family Cymothoidae, represent a remarkable example of host‐parasite coevolution in marine environments. These crustaceans attach to or embed ...

What has 14 legs, lives at the bottom of the sea, and looks like Darth Vader? It's a newly discovered species of supergiant isopod, and should you happen to be in Vietnam sometime soon, you can ...

BERHAMPUR: Researchers of department of zoology, Berhampur University in collaboration with Zoological Survey of India(ZSI) have discovered a new species of marine parasitic isopod along the coast ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

The giant isopod is served as food after being steamed, grilled, stir-fried or cooked with fried rice. Giant isopods sold at a seafood market in Hanoi in May 2024. PHOTO: NGUYEN THANH SON ...