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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of bizarre three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” have surfaced in Arizona after heavy summer rain, national park officials say. The prehistoric crustaceans — officially called triops — were discovered ...

Rain brings life, especially in the more notoriously arid environments. Plants flourish, animals thrive and life abounds after water hits the earth. But one very particular form of life has been ...

(via Deep Look) Tadpole shrimp are neither tadpoles nor shrimp. They're time-traveling crustaceans called triops. Their eggs can spend years – even decades – frozen in time, waiting to hatch. When ...

These three-eyed tadpole shrimp may as well belong in the Pokemon universe. Hundreds of prehistoric shrimp were found inthe Wupatki National Monument in Arizona after a monsoon filled the historic ...

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 ...