As soon as the five-gallon bucket gets pried open, the smell of preserved sea creature with a hint of rancid fat wafts up from this collection of giant isopods sitting in a laboratory at LSU. “They ...

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 ...