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Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:03:56 JST Wonder of Science

A giant deep-sea isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) filmed by the ROV on Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 810 meters (2,660 feet). This impressive underwater creature measures nearly 30cm (almost 1 foot), as indicated by the red laser dots, spaced 10cm apart, that provide scale to the scientists.
Video credit: NOAA
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1. Underwater footage of a huge 'pill bug' cruising in to land on the ocean floor, tracked by two red laser dots, raising a cloud of dust on touchdown. The giant isopod has an oval shaped body, with a hard, segmented exoskeleton colored pale purplish-grey, and fourteen limbs. The clip finishes on a closeup of its head and two prominent antennae.
- SoulDoc (souldoc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:58:39 JST SoulDoc
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  @wonderofscience that is the biggest Rollie-pollie I have ever seen
  
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- Normal for '24 😷🇪🇺🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 02:15:47 JST Normal for '24 😷🇪🇺🍸
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  @wonderofscience Does it chase the red laser dots? Or is it blind?
  
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- Jane Nakai 🌊 🌅#HumanityFirst (babyrazzs@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 03:57:37 JST Jane Nakai 🌊 🌅#HumanityFirst
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  @wonderofscience
  It's relative lives inside the mouths of fishes and in their gills 😬
  
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- LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (lillyherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:36:41 JST LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
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  @wonderofscience Looks remarkably like woodlice!
  
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- Stefan Scholl (stefan_s_from_h@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 03:07:25 JST Stefan Scholl
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  @wonderofscience they are beautiful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathynomus_giganteus
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  1. Bathynomus giganteus
    
    Bathynomus giganteus is a species of aquatic crustacean, of the order Isopoda. It is a member of the giant isopods (Bathynomus), and as such it is related—albeit distantly—to shrimps and crabs. It was the first Bathynomus species ever documented and was described in 1879 by French zoologist Alphonse Milne Edwards after the isopod was found in fishermen's nets off the coast of the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico.The Bathynomus is benthic and abundant in cold waters with a depth of 310–2140 m in the West-Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. It was the first species of Bathynomus to be described and historically it was reported from other oceans, but these are now recognized as other closely related species. The unusually large size of Bathynomus has been attributed to an effect called deep-sea gigantism, where invertebrates living in cold deep waters tend to grow larger and have longer lifespans. Physical description Like most crustaceans, the body of Bathynomus giganteus is divided into three distinct...

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