‘A window to an alien world’: How one macro photographer’s quest may have led him to discover a new species

A “Singapore Tiger” isopod. - COURTESY OF NICKY BAY

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Nicky Bay was on a photography field trip in 2022 with his friends when he came across a “Singapore Tiger”.

The animal, which he photographed and catalogued on his website, was not a man-eating cat, but an isopod - a land-dwelling crustacean that lives in soil and eats decaying plant matter.