Going without food for even a single day feels difficult for most people, so the idea of surviving five years between meals ...

A new study reveals how deep-sea isopods survive years without food using giant stomachs, slow metabolism and a gene that controls energy use.

A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, ...

In the unexplored depths of The Bahamas, a newfound animal emerges—meet Booralana nickorum, the latest addition to the animal kingdom. This recently classified species belongs to the cirolanid isopod ...

Deep-sea isopods, giant crustaceans that inhabit the cold, dark depths of the ocean, can survive for more than five years without food thanks to a combination of anatomical and genetic adaptations, ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Chinese Academy of Sciences team identifies massive stomachs, ultra-low metabolism and a bacteria-derived ND1 gene as keys to ...

Supergiant deep-sea isopods endure years without food by pairing an enlarged stomach with cold-adapted metabolic control.

Using a deep-sea submersible vehicle, researchers captured a small animal having a strange snack. Screengrab from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's video Miles below the surface of the ocean, ...

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 ...

Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family ...

June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem ...