Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holds a giant specimen of another species of giant isopod, found in Vietnam (B. jamesi), which weighed 2.62 kg, from a seafood market in Hanoi, October 2024 / Peter Ng B. vaderi ...

The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters. Referred to by the researchers as a "supergiant," the largest of the specimens weighed more than 2.2 pounds ...

Bathynomus vaderi is a kind of isopod, a group that also includes woodlice ... So far, the new species has only been found by fishers trawling near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

It’s essentially a souped-up undersea version of the sow bug, a similarly-segmented arthropod found ... isopod has only been near the Spratly Islands by anglers trawling for isopods; however, the ...