A small woodlouse-like crustacean seems to help fertilise red seaweed in rock pools, much as a bee pollinates flowers.This suggests that such behaviour is more common in the oceans than we thought ...

Scientists have identified a woodlouse relative — a 10-inch-long, creamy yellow critter called Bathynomus yucatanensis from deep in the Gulf of Mexico.

A bizarre-looking bright blue woodlouse has been photographed in the wild – but the picture is actually much sadder than one might first realise. The image of the critter was shared on Reddit ...

This particular species of woodlouse originated in Europe, particularly the Mediterranean Basin. It has been introduced across the globe, and now resides on every continent except for Antarctica.

The woodlouse hunter preys on pill bugs or sow bugs ... D. crocata bites have been implicated in causing a localized, intensely itching erythema 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter.

Saint Helena Island’s spiky yellow woodlouse is a striking, critically endangered isopod that lives on tree ferns and black cabbage trees, high up in the peaks of Saint Helena’s cloud forests.

Woodlouse spiders have been to bite humans if they are being handled. On The Sun, we wrote some other explainers about spiders, and how to prepare your home ahead of spider season.

Artificial night-time light confuses a colour-changing coastal woodlouse, new research shows. The sea slater is an inch-long woodlouse that lives around the high-tide line and is common in the UK ...

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 times ...

Inside the surprisingly complex life, sex, and death of a woodlouse Woodlice are tiny, don’t bite, move slowly and are generally unthreatening. They are part of biological processes essential to ...

The woodlouse spider has an orange to dark red colour and consists of six eyes. Female ones can grow to 11-15mm while the male's body length is about 9-10mm.