In 2019, a video captured a deep-sea creature as it feasted on a fish head. The incident was recorded on cam while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's research dived off the coast.
The video was featured in the "31 Dives of Halloween" web series of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, highlighting a host of fascinating deep-sea creatures in the "run-up popularity," Newsweek reported.
Giant, horrid deep-sea louse-like creature filmed feasting on fish head https://t.co/3ungz6YoYV
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 22, 2022
The creature seen in the clip is a giant isopod of the Bathynomus giganteus species, a deep-sea scavenger close relative of the pillbugs and sowbugs typically found in gardens and homes.
Isopods, in particular, are a type of crustacean that lives in the ocean and terrestrial environments, on which there are roughly 10,000 species worldwide.
