The nearly 400-year-old fishing village in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam is home to two enormous whale skeletons ...

More and more Vietnamese are being forcibly displaced to make way for development. Many are reluctant to speak out, because ...

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New species of giant isopod identified in Vietnam can reach 32.5 centimeters and reinforces how little is known about deep-sea biodiversity. A marine creature capable of exceeding one kilogram and ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

About 415 million years ago, the floodplains of what’s now England and Wales were haunted by a nightmarish predator: a baseball bat-size scorpion, armed with pincers the size of table knives. That’s ...

Deep-sea isopods can go five-plus years without eating They have a huge stomach and very low metabolism They also have "hijacked" a helpful bacterial gene June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under ...

Gargantuan deep-sea crustaceans can go for years without eating, thanks to a metabolism-related gene borrowed from bacteria 1. Supergiant bathynomids — members of a crustacean group called isopods — ...

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The supergiant bathynomid is a deep-sea isopod famous for surviving more than five years without food. Despite residing in an extremely low-nutrient habitat, these organisms exhibit pronounced body ...

I have a friend, who goes to the outskirts of LAX, just to watch planes take-off and land. He’s in his thirties; he’s not a young child, fascinated by the whir or giant jet engines. Or Disney adults.

What started as a normal dinner quickly turned into a scene no one expected. A live giant isopod sat on the table like a VIP guest. Other diners stared as cameras came out. The reaction was instant ...