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Researchers find giant isopods at the fish market

They are over 30 centimetres long, weigh over a kilogram and look like Darth Vader: Scientists at the University of Hanoi ...
Miami Herald

‘Supergiant’ deep-sea creature found at fishing port is a new species — and a delicacy

This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...
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A deep-sea isopod the size of a forearm was so striking biologists named it after Darth Vader

Biologists have formally described a giant deep-sea isopod so large it spans the length of a human forearm, and its helmet-shaped head reminded them so strongly of a certain Sith Lord that they named ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Identified a New ‘Supergiant’ Crustacean With 14 Legs—and They Named It After Darth Vader

The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly described species of giant isopod found in Southeast Asian waters Nguyen Thanh Son Move aside, lobster—a newly described giant isopod from Vietnam is now a ...
The Straits Times

‘Darth Vader’ giant isopod sold widely as seafood, raises concerns about overfishing

SINGAPORE - A newly discovered species of aquatic supergiant isopod is being widely sold at food stalls and restaurants in Vietnam, causing scientists to worry that such isopods could be overfished ...