Who would have thought a small, yet peculiar creature could stir up such a scene in the Nevada Desert? After heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary turned a dry desert into a mud pit, revellers at the ...

Three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” are stirring in the Nevada desert after flooding upended the Burning Man festival. Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in ...

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These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history. A colony of prehistoric triops, a tadpole shrimp that’s existed for hundreds of millions of years, was beautifully captured by ...

Tadpole shrimp aren't the living fossils they appear to be, new research suggests. Darwin coined the term "living fossil" in "On the Origin of Species" to describe organisms that appear not to have ...

Tadpole shrimp aren't the living fossils they appear to be, new research suggests. Darwin coined the term "living fossil" in "On the Origin of Species" to describe organisms that appear not to have ...