Giant Isopod
If you start sweating and getting uncomfortable when you see big insects like centipedes and roaches, run. The Giant Isopod is every creepy crawly combined into one…and giant. Although it’s habitat is far below our accessible depths and far from our shores in the waters of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Circle, it still gives us the shivers. They are bottom feeders and due to the extreme pressure difference that far down, these creatures suffer from a form of ‘gigantism’ whereas near our level they would much smaller than the 2.5 foot recorded ones. Just reeling one of these in on a deep sea fishing trip would still horrify anyone.
Giant Isopod
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