The family of giant isopods – which are related to crabs, shrimp and lobsters ... Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, researcher said. Although the species was just discovered ...

Internet users are swooning over a baby king crab found by the ... an operation in the Gulf of Mexico, which collected samples of mesophotic and deep-sea coral species for lab rearing and propagation.

A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to the facehuggers from “Alien” has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico. The bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of giant isopod ...

In 2019, isopods in the Gulf of Mexico became famous when ... a pattern seen in Japanese spider crabs, oarfish, and the largest squid species. The research team compared the new isopod species ...