Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce environment.

When I was growing up in the North West, my friends and I had a shorthand expression for failing to properly cleanse oneself before a night out on the town.

A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: ​how to stay alive ...