and looks like Darth Vader? It's a newly discovered species of supergiant isopod, and should you happen to be in Vietnam sometime soon, you can buy one and eat it. Related to the pillbugs (aka ...

A purchase at an urban Vietnamese fish market turned out to be a whole new species of giant isopod –with a bit of a dark side. The foot-long crustacean has been named Bathynomus vaderi and sports a ...

The Darth Vader inspiration came from the appearance ... isopods typically scavenge carcasses on the seafloor, but may also eat live prey. Isopods are crustaceans, part of a group that includes ...