{"id":203810,"date":"2025-01-15T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/species-of-deep-sea-bug-the-size-of-a-small-dog-named-for-star-wars-villain"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:28:42","slug":"species-of-deep-sea-bug-the-size-of-a-small-dog-named-for-star-wars-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/species-of-deep-sea-bug-the-size-of-a-small-dog-named-for-star-wars-villain","title":{"rendered":"Species of Deep Sea Bug The Size of a Small Dog Named For Star Wars Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/species-of-deep-sea-bug-the-size-of-a-small-dog-named-for-star-wars-villain3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-deep-sea-giant-isopod-has-been-discovered-in-the-gulf-of-mexico\">\u2019supergiant\u2019 isopods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among them was a species unknown to science at the time. National University of Singapore carcinologist Peter Ng and colleagues have now formally described the novel sea bug in a new paper.<\/p>\n<p>As the head of the animal\u2019s carapace resembles the iconic scifi helmet adorned by Star Wars\u2019 infamous Darth Vader, Ng and team named the giant woodlice relative <em>Bathynomus vaderi<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of \u2019supergiant\u2019 isopods Among them was a species unknown to science at the time. National University of Singapore carcinologist Peter Ng and colleagues have now formally described the novel sea bug in a new paper. As the head of the animal\u2019s carapace resembles the iconic scifi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203810","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}