One of those creatures is the giant isopod. These can be found in Animal Crossing and can go for a lot of bells, so they are a good one to look out for. Here's the complete guide to the giant isopod ...

Kevin’s wonderful post on the Giant Isopod inspired me to post on a topic I have long pondered. Frequent readers of DSN know that I am fond of Sylvia Earle and the topic of body size. Honestly, it is ...

From Japan comes news of a giant isopod that knows all there is to know about the hunger game. How else to explain the fasting behavior of the animal that, his minders say, hasn't eaten in more than 1 ...

Evan Leonidas Lim Yit Ming, 12, isn't the kind of boy who keeps cats or rabbits as pets. Instead, his favourite companions are tiny creatures called isopods. Isopods are a group of small crustaceans, ...

OAK HARBOR, Wash. — These are not pests. They’re pets! "There are thousands of isopods in this house," laughed Narissa Jackson, who's raising them in bins in her Whidbey Island home. Isopods are not ...

What I want to discuss, and I use this word specifically as after 10 years contemplation I seem no closer to an answer, is why the Giant Isopod is, well, giant? Mosely noted in 1880 Other [animals] ...

“What’s that?” you ask. It’s the newest critter at the Virginia Aquarium. It’s called a deepwater isopod but aquarium folks compare the isopod to a cross between a big cockroach and a roly poly bug.

A new species of giant isopod, Bathynomus yucatanensis Huang et al. via Journal of Natural History Giant isopods are like something out of a science fiction novel—these massive, armored crustaceans ...