A newly identified giant isopod species offers clues to how these deep-sea crustaceans spread around the world, including a possible return to the Americas via Antarctica. A giant crustacean brought from Puerto Rico to Germany as a teaching specimen has turned out to belong to a species unknown to science. Tübingen paleontologist Professor Dolf Seilacher [...]
Researchers at the University of Tübingen, Germany, identified a new species of giant isopod, after rediscovering a specimen that was stored in the institution's paleontological collection. The animal, collected in Porto...