British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

Isopods belong to an order containing around ... Researchers collected two specimens, a male and a female, from depths ranging between 3,117 and 4,134 feet off Java’s southern coast.

then non-blood-fed female Anopheles, male Anopheles, and finally the most common prey type in its habitat: midges. Juveniles even have an Anopheles-specific method of hunting, which they don’t ...

They're technically crustaceans as they're members of the isopod family and are usually found deep in the South China Sea and sold to markets and restaurants. While scientists in the region were ...

Recently, scientists identified a new species of these giant isopods and named it after the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader. Popular Science reports that the scientists from Hanoi University teamed ...

Trump's executive order declares sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female" and states that "gender identity" cannot be included in the definition of ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on his first day in office Monday issued an order defining a person’s sex as “male or female” — requiring government agencies to use the “immutable ...

Claims spread that definitions of "male" and "female" included in a January 2025 executive order that asserted sex is established at conception accidentally classified all Americans as women.

Giant isopods - of which B. vaderi is one - have become an expensive delicacy in Vietnam in recent years. The unusual sea creatures are caught commercially and sold at fish markets. Some people ...

Pictured: Newly identified giant isopod species Bathynomus vaderi. The creature's species name is a reference to how its head looks like the helmet of the evil Darth Vader in the "Star Wars ...

A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to redefine “male” and “female” by fiat. The order, with the cumbersome ...