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Giant phantom jellies are one of the largest invertebrate predators in the ocean, and have been spotted in the wild giving ...

Researchers exploring the wares of fishers in Vietnam discovered a “supergiant” sea bug species whose resemblance to Darth ...

So big, in fact, scientists reference the largest types as "supergiants." Biologists have identified a new such species, ...

Deep beneath the waves of the South China Sea, a fascinating creature has surfaced—Bathynomus vaderi, a newly discovered ...

The deep-sea critter, now called Bathynomus vaderi ... This disparity in size makes the discovery of such a huge specimen ...

Discover Bathynomus vaderi, a newly identified giant isopod species from Vietnam’s deep seas, named after Darth Vader.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters. Referred to by the researchers as a "supergiant," the largest of the specimens weighed more than 2.2 pounds ...