Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most isopods, including pill bugs, have 7 pairs of legs. Utilizing pleopodal lungs creates a permanent respiratory constraint on ...

Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill bugs may look like insects, but they are actually crustaceans, distant relatives of crabs ...

Genes from a tiny shrimp-like crustacean could help in the search for the origin of insect wings, a new study finds. To be clear, there is no evidence that any crustaceans ever evolved to fly, ...

Pill bugs are common but unique creatures that are found throughout the world, including the U.S. They’re also known as rolly pollies because of their tendency to curl up into a ball when they’re ...

Scientists discovered a new species of giant isopod that is the size of a literal football. This big crustacean lives on the ocean floor but is related to the pillbugs, also known as roly poly bugs, ...

Crustaceans, insects and mushrooms are rich sources of the dietary fiber chitin, which activates the immune system and benefits metabolism, according to a new study in mice. Who can forget the stomach ...

Most isopods, including pill bugs, have 7 pairs of legs. Utilizing pleopodal lungs creates a permanent respiratory constraint on land. Scientists discovered crustaceans successfully adapted to dry ...