Deep-sea isopods are cousins of terrestrial roly-polies, also known as pill bugs. The newly described pinky-length crustacean was found on a slope of Exuma Sound, southeast of Nassau, at a depth ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Deep in the waters off Vietnam’s coast, scientists have discovered a new species of giant isopod — a ...

Bathynomus giganteus (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) You know those cute little roly-poly bugs you found under rocks as a kid? You poke at them and they curl up into a little ball? Well, ...

This big crustacean lives on the ocean floor but is related to the pillbugs, also known as roly poly bugs, in your garden. They definitely look like something out of science fiction or even horror ...

A giant deep-sea, a huge marine relative of the common woodlouse or roly-poly, has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. Measuring more than 10 inches long, the isopod, ...

Giant isopods scurry like roly-poly bugs in a touch tank. Japanese spider crabs the size of Labrador retrievers stalk a whale skeleton. Glasslike jellies crackle with electric-rainbow lights. Into ...

The isopods -- which are distantly related to the roly poly, or pill bug -- gorged to the point of being “stupefied,” said the researchers.

At around 2.2 to 3 inches (55 to 76 millimeters) long, it's much larger than its terrestrial cousins in the pill bug family — also called roly poly bugs or woodlice — which measures around 0. ...

Jerusalem crickets span two genera, meanwhile the name “potato bug” can refer to a Jerusalem cricket, a roly-poly, or a Colorado potato beetle. So it seems these massive arthropods are ...

1. Roly-Poly Is Just One of Their Names . For one small bug, they go by a lot of different names. The scientific name of the most common species is Armadillidium vulgare, and they are officially ...

B.yucatanensis looks like its land-dwelling isopod relative, the common woodlouse (also called a pill bug or roly poly)—but at 10 inches long and 5 inches wide, B. yucatanensis is about 25 times ...