Are Giant Isopod and Bathynomus Giganteus April Fool's Pranks for Work?!

Are a giant isopod and bathynomus giganteus April Fool's pranks for work or the real deal? When a deep sea tech asked Reddit readers for help identifying a giant isopod, some thought it was an April Fool's work prank but the submarine really did find a bathynomus giganteus.

FoxNews reports about what was thought be be an April Fools pranks for work (and wasn't) with a post from the tech on Reddit, " "I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a wee bit over 2.5 feet head to tail, and we expect it latched onto the ROV at roughly 8,500 feet depth. Unfortunately, the e-mail that these pictures were attached to came from a contractor, and the ship he was operating from (and therefore location) is unknown, so I can't tell you what part of the Earth this beast was living."

The beast was a giant isopod, formally known as Bathynomus giganteus. This deep water crustacean eats dead whales, squid and fish. The giant isopod is a living creature and not April Fool's pranks for work after all.

According to MSNBC, Craig McClain, assistant director of science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, stated about the giant isopod bathynomus giganteus, "I've seen the pictures, and they are real, and they really do get that big. It's an isopod. It's like the rolypolys or pillbugs that you find in your garden. It's the same group of animals."

Wow, did you ever imagine the pillbugs your kids used in school experiments were the relatives of this giant isopod bathynomus giganteus? Even though the giant isopod wasn't April Fool's pranks for work, I'll never look at pillbugs the same way again.