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Ghostly White Roly Poly Bug Discovered in the Deep Sea
Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family Cirolanidae—and is only the second species of its genus described from the Western North Atlantic. Deep-sea isopods are cousins of terrestrial roly-polies, also known…