This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs [1] or roly polies. [2] Other common names include slaters, potato bugs, butchy boys, [3] and doodle bugs. [4] Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a …

2022年8月9日 · 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, a new species, is 25...

The pillbug — that roly poly backyard bug — has a colossal cousin that lives in the ocean’s darkest depths. The giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) roams the deep seafloor feasting on fish carcasses and other debris that fall from above. Of thousands of species of isopods, it's the largest and among the most mysterious.

2022年6月7日 · Giant isopods look surprisingly similar to tiny, land-dwelling roly-polies, except their exoskeleton is brown or pale lilac in color. And like their roly-poly cousins, giant isopods can roll up into a ball and use their tough outer layer as a shield.

2023年9月21日 · Whether you find giant isopods curiously cute or just creepy, they play an essential role in our ocean. Their scavenging helps to keep the ocean floor from being covered in detritus and allows for new life to grow. Even the deepest parts of the ocean have evidence of plastics and climate change.

2020年10月2日 · It’s a sea creature so ready to feast that it could eat an entire whale on its own — as long as the whale is no longer alive. While a giant isopod may resemble a creepy oversized bug or a dangerous underwater alien, it’s actually a deep-sea dwelling crustacean that plays an essential role in keeping the seafloor clean.

2024年1月23日 · 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 0.55...

2022年8月10日 · A group of football-sized isopods have been roaming the seafloor like giant, blown-up roly-poly bugs for 200 or 300 million years, even through the dinosaur extinction event. One of the largest living species today, Bathynomus giganteus, can be found at depths of more than 2,500 meters (8,200 feet).

2024年1月25日 · 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...

2024年1月25日 · The animal kingdom welcomes a new creature that is recently discovered in the Carribean. The so-called roly poly bug is the newest species of deep-sea isopod.