Warren Currie 🦠🦐 on Nostr: Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠 Triops (three-eyed), tadpole shrimp are in the ...
Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Triops (three-eyed), tadpole shrimp are in the news because they were hatching at the flooded out burning man festival. They are freshwater #crustaceans, sometimes called dinosaur shrimp, because they have had this armored tadpole look since the Devonian 300M years ago. Triops spp. (order Notostraca), are #extremeophiles which can survive dried out to hatch and reproduce decades later from resistant diapause eggs in these ephemeral pools.
https://www.iflscience.com/three-eyed-dinosaur-shrimp-are-waking-up-at-burning-man-70529
Triops (three-eyed), tadpole shrimp are in the news because they were hatching at the flooded out burning man festival. They are freshwater #crustaceans, sometimes called dinosaur shrimp, because they have had this armored tadpole look since the Devonian 300M years ago. Triops spp. (order Notostraca), are #extremeophiles which can survive dried out to hatch and reproduce decades later from resistant diapause eggs in these ephemeral pools.
https://www.iflscience.com/three-eyed-dinosaur-shrimp-are-waking-up-at-burning-man-70529