A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades
A huge bug-like crustacean, roughly 12.7 inches (32.2 centimeters) long, spent over three decades misidentified as a known species as it sat inside the University of Tübingen in Germany.
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German paleontologist Dolf Seilacher had not yet won his Crafoord—the prestigious honor awarded by the same Swedish academy that gives out the Nobel Prize—when he was collecting specimens in Puerto Rico back in the 1980s. The research station had pulled a gigantic Bathynomus isopod, a huge bug-like crustacean roughly 12.7 inches (32.2 centimeters) long, up from a trap that had lain in wait 1,640 feet (500 meters) deep along the ocean floor.
Seilacher, sadly, passed away in 2014, long before…
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