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 ...

He found a parasitic marine isopod in a coprolite, or fossilized poop. KWES Midland/Odessa. Odessa man has new species named after him. Story by Tyler Dupnick • 16h.

Best Thing in Texas Dive in a Murky River, and You Might Just Discover a New Species Jason Osborne, from Odessa, found an 18-million-year-old marine isopod fossil previously unknown to science.

Scientists have discovered a new species of marine cryptofauna in the Florida Keys. Cryptofauna are the tiny, hidden, organisms that make up the majority of biodiversity in the ocean. The tiny ...

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 ...

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 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.

Stock image of a marine isopod. Excirolana chiltoni, a tiny species of marine isopod, has been biting people's feet in the shallows of California beaches, drawing blood.

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