In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered ...

The species was given its name because its head looks like the helmet worn by Darth Vader in Star Wars. Read more at ...

The species was given its name because its head looks like the helmet worn by Darth Vader in Star Wars. Read more at ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new species of crustacean by examining samples purchased from Vietnamese fishermen. Because its ...

Its head resembles Darth Vader’s helmet, and it is eaten by the Vietnamese. Bathynomus vaderi belongs to the genus Bathynomus — giant isopods (crustaceans also known as sea bugs or marine bugs), which ...

It looks like it came from a galaxy far, far away — and should have stayed there. Southeast Asian scientists sent people’s skin crawling after discovering a sea bug off Vietnam that’s so ...

‘The sustainable fishery of giant isopods just adds to the many challenges we face. And the first step is to know what lives there.’ ...

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A team of scientists discovered a new species of giant isopod in the deep waters near Vietnam's Spratly Islands and named it Bathynomus vaderi, in honor of the iconic helmet worn by Darth Vader ...

Giant isopods of the genus Bathynomus, which can reach more than 30 cm in length, are known as bọ biển or "sea bugs" in Vietnam. For the first time, one such species was described from Vietnamese ...

Weighing over a kilogram, giant isopods like B. vaderi are an example of deep-sea ... which the researchers used as a comparison in their paper. This group of sea bugs are only known to have been ...