WHO: Jason Osborne, of Odessa, who scuba dives across the country looking for ancient marine life. WHAT: A newly discovered genus and species of parasitic marine isopod, known as Calverteca osbornei, ...

The Calvert Marine Museum recently announced a groundbreaking paleontological discovery in which a coprolite — fossilized feces — containing the impression of a new genus and species of parasitic ...

ODESSA, Texas — We’ve all found a cool seashell or rock while out and about in nature, but imagine finding a fossil that reveals a new species -- that was the case for one Odessa man. It was a ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of marine cryptofauna in the Florida Keys. Cryptofauna are the tiny, hidden, organisms that make up the majority of biodiversity in the ocean. The tiny ...

Scientists recently trapped a giant isopod off the coast of Mexico, and after studying its anatomy and DNA, they determined that the crustacean is an entirely new species. Deep sea isopods dwell on ...

Kensley, Brian F., Nelson, W. G., and Schotte, Marilyn. 1995. "Marine isopod biodiversity of the Indian River lagoon, Florida." Bulletin of Marine Science, 57, (1 ...

What has 14 legs, lives at the bottom of the sea, and looks like Darth Vader? It's a newly discovered species of supergiant isopod, and should you happen to be in Vietnam sometime soon, you can buy ...