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A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades


A huge bug-like crustacean, roughly 12.7 inches (32.2 centimeters) long, spent over three decades misidentified as a known species as it sat inside the University of Tübingen in Germany.

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