Puerto Rico’s Newly Named Giant Isopod Points to a 15-Million-Year Journey Through a Vanished Panama Seaway
Nature World News | 21.10.2026 23:01
The scientists who identified a new giant deep-sea isopod from Puerto Rico have now laid out how they think the whole group spread around the planet, and the story begins in waters off the southern United States. In an account released by the University of Tübingen on Oct. 15, researchers Ingmar Werneburg and Benedikt Kästle said the genus Bathynomus likely arose in what is now the Gulf of Mexico more than 15 million years ago.
