Jackson keeps over 1,800 of these small crustaceans, known as terrestrial isopods. On top of being “cute” and entertaining, the isopods help her with some house chores.

A new isopod species has been discovered in a lab in Singapore, and it is massive, at least relative to other giant isopods. It's named after Darth Vader. The post New ‘Supergiant’ Isopod ...

Deep sea isopods belong to the same group that contains the terrestrial isopods known variously as woodlice, pillbugs, and roly polys, ...

Relatives of terrestrial woodlice and the adorably named roly-polys (also known as pillpugs), giant isopods’ dorsal sides are sheathed in a plated exoskeleton.

NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition, via NOAA Photo Library, Flickr // CC by 2.0. Giant isopods live between 550 to 7020 feet deep (and potentially deeper), and prefer a ...

The creature, which he photographed and catalogued on his website, was not a man-eating cat but a terrestrial isopod – a land-dwelling crustacean that lives in soil and eats decaying plant matter.

Isopods belong to an order of woodlouse-resembling crustaceans that include more than 10,000 marine, freshwater and terrestrial species. They range in size from tiny critters like E. chiltoni to ...

Eyeless creature, an isopod, discovered in volcanic environment on ocean floor near New Zealand, ... Interestingly, they appear “remarkably” similar to a terrestrial species of isopod.

Under the microscope, the isopods were covered in tiny specks of sperm just like marine worms in Solis-Weiss study. Lavaut’s group reported its findings on July 28 in the journal Science .

Although isopods only hit the scene 300 million years ago, it is possible that before their arrival, there were red seaweeds that relied on some other now-extinct marine invertebrates to ...