Biologists exploring the ocean floor for new sea creatures have stumbled upon one of the largest known single-celled creatures, a bland, grape-sized distant cousin of the amoeba that may solve a ...

Most people assume that pill bugs, which are more colloquially referred to as ‘roly polies,’ are insects. But while you might find these little critters hanging out under rocks with other bugs, they ...

A nearly foot-long giant isopod specimen is a new crustacean species. It lives in the sea, eats dead whales, and is related to roly poly bugs. Scientists discovered a new species of giant isopod that ...

Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family ...

They curl into a ball, carry their babies in a pouch, and aren’t even insects. Meet the roly poly. Roly polies aren’t insects — they’re crustaceans, and they have more in common with kangaroos than ...