On the last day of 2008, a little bird told me that the venerable American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vt., a beacon for the nations fly-fishers and a keeper of their rich tradition, had ...

Art often imitates life, and sometimes animals do, too. The enormous jellyfish seen in this YouTube video bears a striking ...

Massive new bug species found — and it’s so horrifying, it’s been named after Darth Vader By . Ben Cost. Published Jan. 15, 2025, ... fish, squid, and even whale carcasses.

A purchase at an urban Vietnamese fish market turned out to be a whole new species of giant isopod–with a bit of a dark side. The foot-long crustacean has been named Bathynomus vaderi and sports ...

A Darth Vader cosplayer at a sci-fi convention. In Star Wars, the evil Sith Lord is depicted wearing a life-support suit—including the helmet that resembles the newly described isopod—to ...

The first movie was in 1977, in my youth, and it was cool,” says Ng. “But we all agree that the face of Bathynomus looks so much like Darth Vader that it just had to be named after the Sith ...