“Using the submersible Alvin, scientists encountered (an) isopod swimming 3.7 miles deep, with oar-like legs as long as your fingers, eating an unexpected food source,” according to a Sep ...

Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight. But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their ...

build a complete database, and then allow people to eat; it would be better that way,” he added. Isopods are invertebrates – animals without backbones – that belong to the group known as ...

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The carnivorous marine isopods typically scavenge carcasses on the seafloor, but may also eat live prey. Isopods are crustaceans, part of a group that includes lobsters and shrimp. Sea bugs have ...

Pill bugs are also closely related to them ... “When they‘re hungry, and they‘re eating, {we’ll} definitely have a lot of food around them because they‘ll keep eating.” ...