In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of 'supergiant' isopods at a seaford market in Quy Nhơn City in Vietnam, intrigued by a burgeoning market for the deep sea crustaceans as a ...

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

Currently, there are only 11 recognised supergiant and nine giant species of Bathynomus, with more species yet to be formally described. B. vaderi is just the second recorded supergiant isopod ...

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. The differences included 'tail' flaps called uropods, ...

it’s a fitting comparison for the daddy of all isopods. However, another less fortunate nickname for giant isopods like B. vaderi is the “king of seafood”. Described as being even more ...

In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly ...

Though recently gaining the limelight as a superior alternative to lobster tail, a species of giant isopod is making ...

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 ...