{"id":111366,"date":"2020-08-14T23:32:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T06:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/supergiant-new-species-of-isopod-discovered-in-the-deep-ocean"},"modified":"2020-08-14T23:32:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T06:32:48","slug":"supergiant-new-species-of-isopod-discovered-in-the-deep-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/supergiant-new-species-of-isopod-discovered-in-the-deep-ocean","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSupergiant\u201d new species of isopod discovered in the deep ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supergiant-new-species-of-isopod-discovered-in-the-deep-ocean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All kinds of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/faceless-fish-australia-abyss-expedition\/49827\/\">fascinating discoveries<\/a> are likely lying in wait for us in the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/marine-census-17500-species-deep-ocean\/13465\/\">deep sea<\/a>. Now scientists have pulled a new monster out of the waters off the coast of Indonesia. The creature is a new species of \u201csupergiant\u201d isopod, a huge marine relative of the common pillbug.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made during the South Java Deep Sea Biodiversity Expedition 2018 (SJADES 2018). At depths between 950 and 1,260 m (3,115 and 4,135 ft), the team found two specimens of giant isopods that were soon determined to belong to a new species.<\/p>\n<p>Named <i><i><i>Bathynomus<\/i> raksasa<\/i>,<\/i> the holotype, or physical specimen that serves as the basis for the description and name of the new species, is a male that was measured to be 36.3 cm (14.3 in) long, which puts it among the largest giant isopods ever found. The second specimen was a female measuring 29.8 cm (11.7 in). Along with being bigger on average, the team noted other differences when compared to the closest known species, <i><i>Bathynomus<\/i> giganteus,<\/i> including smoother \u201cskin\u201d and different body proportions and shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All kinds of fascinating discoveries are likely lying in wait for us in the deep sea. Now scientists have pulled a new monster out of the waters off the coast of Indonesia. The creature is a new species of \u201csupergiant\u201d isopod, a huge marine relative of the common pillbug. The discovery was made during the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}