New species of giant deep-sea isopod discovered in the Gulf of Mexico

A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to the facehuggers from"Alien" has been identified off the Gulf of Mexico.

The bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of giant isopod, crustaceans that scavenge for food at the bottom of the ocean. Their segmented, fourteen-legged bodies resemble their much smaller relative, the woodlouse. The foot-long size of the giant isopods has been attributed to deep-sea gigantism, the same phenomenon that leads to giant squids at the bottom of our oceans.

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Probably tastes like lobster

”The foot-long size of the giant isopods has been attributed to deep-sea gigantism”😳🫣 horrorshow isopod

well whoopty fuckin' doo!

Roly Moley...

Looks nothing like an 'Alien' facehugger. More like a big pillbug, or 'roly-poly', as called them as kids.

But how is it boiled and dipped in butter?

😂

Looks like a rogue lobster tail

No thank you! More for others!

Es un fósil viviente, ha vivido desde hace mucho antes que la serie aliens..

chinese: how does it taste?

... it doesn't look anything like a facehugger

NO

That looks nothing like them, but I digress.

It’s a trilobite…

Isn't dat just a sea cockroach?

Looks delicious 🤤

Always alien refer to Mexicans Isn’t that racist by now 😂

wake up boo new monster just dropped

Can you eat it?

We know what comes next.

but how does it taste?

Is this just a form of deep sea lobster? A foot long lobster thorax is an impressive amount of seafood.

Hope it's not delicious or it's in big trouble

oh just great

I was gonna say albino potato bug... But ok.

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