cockroach of the sea.. yay... creepy lil buggar

I love isopods, that is an awesome picture!

arrgh its huuuge

U-G-L-Y u aint got no alabai :^p

We found one of those shells, before. I never realized they could get that big, before finding it. Looks prehistoric. We found ours in Charleston, SC on the coast (Just the shell). Really cool

that looks awfully photoshopped to me they eyes are the first give away then the whole thing just dosnt sit right in the background

Anything on here that Im not sure of, I google it. And~ found a youtube video of a few of these things and some eels and crabs feasting on a dead tuna. Still looks disgusting to eat tho. lol

Kill it with fire.

imma go catch me a kabuto now

Im going to be honest, that thing looks like it'd be great steamed, with some butter.

This is a genuine creature that lives in the Atlantic, it was brought to the surface when it attached itself to a Submarine that was scouting the area.

I want one as a pet.

Where's jonny rico when you need him?

Its a photo shopped dust mite.

Its both ugly scary cute and weird at the same time

im not scared of bugs unless theyre centipede/millipedes, or REALLY BIG. (...)

Sexy beast..

HES CUTE

This is very scary. I hate crabs and this looks like a giant crab. But I can see in a way how people say this is cute.

Those things live thousands of feet below the ocean. How can it live on the surface. And also, The recon had to bring him up slowly. The rapid de-compression would cause you red blood cells to explode if you came up to fast. Grouesome

Necrochild - in the UK we call them woodlice. Pill bugs is a good name. My mother (who was born a very long time ago) called them pigs, which I suppose was a regional English name. She also called ants "emmets". Here's a bit of cinema trivia. In a 1930s movie called "Five Star Final", Boris Karloff played a crooked divinity student called Rev. Isopod!

I want to scratch it's chin. I'll call him bobber.

What is it with you guys? I think it has quite a cute aspect to it :3

XD So don't squish em or this guy'll come after ya!

It still amazes me how they have those silvery eyes. Btw, you guys know the closest relative to this thing are wood lice? Roly polys, also known as pill bugs. The little buggies aren't bugs, but actually tiny terrestrial crustaceans.

Lucky they're a very deep-water species. I read somewhere that they taste like crabmeat, and we'd probably drive them extinct in a hundred years if they weren't too deep down to be worth catching.

OMG this thing is so scary im already scared looking at it....i never wanna see this creature in real life i'd go bolestic OMG the thing is so scary looking

This is not a creature I would want to anger..... ugh, creepy-scary- if I saw this, I'd be on the phone with an exterminator, and then a very good therapist.