The authors addressed this challenge by focusing on the simple but mysterious diet of the desert isopods- an interesting species of pill-bug that eats dry leaves and large quantity of ...

“Ogusokumushi,” or the deep-sea giant isopod called Bathynomus doederleinii by its scientific name, is always a favorite among aquarium visitors. Its body is about 10 centimeters ...

Giant isopods, which belong to the Bathynomus genus ... around them because they‘ll keep eating.” Their carnivorous diet consists of dead animals that have fallen to the ocean floor, but ...