Try to picture a tiny, transparent crustacean that looks like a hybrid of a centipede and a horseshoe crab with a zillion writhing legs. While they’re not likely to win any beauty contests, triops are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Triops or Tadpole Shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) also called "living fossils" this genus have been found in rocks hundreds of ...

If you’re in the market for a low-cost, low-maintenance, low-commitment but high-interest pet, you can’t do better than triops. What are triops? Also known as tadpole shrimp, triops are a kind of ...

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The tadpole shrimp (Notostraca: Triops) have been called living fossils with conserved morphology, but subtle morphological variations within and between species has yielded confused taxonomic ...

Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth or human ancestors swung from trees, triops were there. Now, millions of years later, they're right here in Albuquerque -- a whole puddle full.Nelson Gallegos made ...

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Sea-Monkeygate. While at the Toy Fair here in New York, I stumbled upon two products that essentially do the same thing (let you grow small animals in a small water ...