Peer into the nearest tidepool – nature’s version of a fishbowl – and there’s a decent chance you’ll see tiny, chubby life forms crawling in it. They’re called isopods, a reference to their standard ...

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An isopod swims backward and upside down in the deep ocean using largepaddle legs, carrying Sargassum algae that has sunk from the surface miles above. Surprisingly, these isopods can be seen carrying ...

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, ...

What do deep-sea crustaceans munch on? A new study titled "A deep-sea isopod that consumes Sargassum sinking from the ocean's surface," published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: ...