You may have heard of Triops before but under a different name. With eggs that can stay dormant for decades and an ability to survive in harsh conditions, they are often sold in kits designed for ...

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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 ...

Monsoon rains in northern Arizona this summer awoke bizarre three-eyed crustaceans from a decades-long slumber. Hundreds of the horseshoe-crab-like creatures, known as Triops, emerged from tiny eggs ...

COURTESY SUSAN SCOTT Triops means three eyes. The creature’s tiny third eye lies between its larger two. As you might expect from animals that live only in patches of muddy water, Triops eat anything ...

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 ...

A group of 'living fossils' that have been on the planet for about 550 million years was spotted by a tourist exploring a landmark rock formation in Arizona. A group of prehistoric Triops, a tadpole ...