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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The tadpole shrimp (Triops cancriformis) is a very peculiar species. It is also known as dinosaur shrimp because it has been around for about 250 million years, which means it shared the earth with ...

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 California rice ...

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 ...