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A giant isopod may be one of approximately nine species of large isopods (crustaceans related to the shrimp and crabs) in the genus Bathynomus. They are thought to be abundant in cold, deep waters of the Atlantic. Bathynomus giganteus, the species upon which the generitype is based, is the largest known isopod and is the one most often referred to by the common name "giant isopod".

French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards was the first to describe the genus in 1879 after fishing a juvenile male B. giganteus from the Gulf of Mexico; this was an exciting discovery for both scientists and the public, as at the time the idea of a lifeless or "azoic" deep ocean had only recently been refuted by the work of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and others. Females were not recovered until 1891.

Giant isopods are of little interest to most commercial fisheries owing to the typical paucity of catches and because ensnared isopods are usually scavenged beyond marketability before they are recovered. However, in Northern Taiwan and other areas, they are not uncommon at seaside restaurants, served boiled and bisected with a clean lateral slice. The white meat, similar to crab or lobster in texture, is then easily removed. The few specimens caught in the Americas with baited traps are sometimes seen in public aquaria.

[firedog25]

FUCKING GROSS! If it has more than four legs it deserves to be squashed.

[dark-babi]

Originally Posted by firedog25 ↗

FUCKING GROSS! If it has more than four legs it deserves to be squashed.

why should it be squashed? what if a mutated animal had like 5 legs would you kill them too?
besides their pretty cool looking =p

[Dmander]

You like lobster, crawfish, crab, and shrimp don't you? I bet they probably are good eating.

[Hotstuff]

1st pic i thought, Trillobite...3rd pic i thought, enlarged photo of dust mites that are in yr bed etc now im itching like mad gross!

[scalpelxSLUT]

They're kinda cute. I want one.

[Ghost1991]

I think they're cute

[firedog25]

Originally Posted by dark-babi ↗

why should it be squashed? what if a mutated animal had like 5 legs would you kill them too?
besides their pretty cool looking =p

Yes, like Spiderlamb! FWAR!

[DesertBeagle 540]

Classic 2001-2005 Doritos

[piecewise]

Originally Posted by firedog25 ↗

FUCKING GROSS! If it has more than four legs it deserves to be squashed.

try it if you like, but we'll be extinct for a billion years before they will be.