These isopods are not so different from the pill-bugs found in a garden. However, their size makes them stand out, and even so, B. vaderi is not the biggest of the deep-sea isopods. In what might ...

Miranda Lowe, Principal Curator of Crustacea, explains some of what we know so far about these giant waterborne relatives of the pill bug. There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem ...