One of true rarities/oddities in natural history: the Giant Deepwater Isopod or Bathynomus giganteus. This creature was first discovered in 1878 off the coast of the Dry Tortugas when a scientific expedition detected a specimen in its nets. A year … Continued
C. J. Temminck described the species Maja kaempferi from specimens received from Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1836 which originated from Deshima island (= protruding island – jap. trans.) in the Nagasaki Bay. The specimens were one of the first … Continued