An overgrown, deep-sea curiosity found where asteroid struck Yucatán - Yucatan Magazine

A giant deep-sea, a huge relative of the common woodlouse or roly-poly has been discovered where an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Measuring more than 10 inches long, the isopod, a new species, has 14 legs and is 25 times bigger…

Bathynomus yucatanensis. Photo: Courtesy Ming-Chih Huang / Journal of Natural History A giant deep-sea, a huge relative of the common woodlouse or roly-poly has been discovered where an asteroid str… [+968 chars]

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