"That a species as large as this could have stayed hidden for so long reminds us just how much work we still need to do to ...

Discover Bathynomus vaderi, a newly identified giant isopod species from Vietnam’s deep seas, named after Darth Vader.

Deep beneath the waves of the South China Sea, a fascinating creature has surfaced—Bathynomus vaderi, a newly discovered ...

That shocking size is approximately 10 times larger than the average isopod. To date, 11 "supergiant" and nine "giant" Bathynomus species have been discovered, and vaderi is only the second to be ...

Because the head of the animal's carapace bared a resemblance to the iconic helmet worn by Darth Vader in "Star Wars," the creature was named Bathynomus ... to a genus of giant isopods found ...