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 ...

As if the 2023 Burning Man Festival wasn't apocalyptic enough, the event was recently beset by a biblical plague of three-eyed "dinosaur shrimp," which wriggled to the surface of the Nevada desert to ...

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 ...

Sometimes, creatures are so strange-looking that they compel us to do a double-take. This Instagram video shows active, trilobite-like creatures grabbing earthworms in the water, riding them, and ...

Tadpole shrimp are neither tadpoles, nor shrimp. They are a little, ancient type of crustacean that swims in water in the ...

KASHAN, 7 October (BelTA - IRNA) - Tadpole shrimps, among the planet’s oldest surviving species and regarded as living fossils, have been sighted in the city of Ardestan, Isfahan Province in central ...

Triops or Tadpole Shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) also called "living fossils" this genus have been found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old. Triops are commonly sold in kits as pets.© Dan Olsen ...