#triops

[bedupolker]

girls when they get new shoes:

fairy shrimp & tadpole shrimp

[sobcat]

[humblegrub]

triops are one of my all-time fave little guys

[dailybugfacts]

Can we get a cool fact about triops? If they count as buges

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Did you know that the Longtail Tadpole Shrimp (Triops Longicaudatus) is a small crustacean found throughout South America and north into much of the US? They look kinda like a horseshoe crab but much smaller and with two tail tips instead of one. Typically they reproduce asexually but sometimes there is sexual reproduction. Even less frequent (but frequent enough to note) individuals in some populations have the parts necessary to give and receive both male and female gametes. Their eggs are extremely resilient, being able to withstand flashfreezes and droughts, with the ability to wait in diapause for up to 20 years(!) before inviability.

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[bignaz8]

After heavy rains in the Arizona desert, a surprising phenomenon repeated itself at Wupatki National Monument: hundreds of Triops, prehistoric three-eyed crustaceans, emerged from eggs that had been dormant underground for years.

They were seen in 2021 and reappeared in 2023 after another monsoon. These “living dinosaurs” live only a few weeks, but their lineage dates back more than 350 million years. Scientists consider them a fascinating example of extreme adaptation.

Nature holds amazing secrets… and sometimes, after the rain, it decides to reveal them in a puddle in the middle of the desert.

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[1-fish-a-day]

Your daily fish (???) #64

Triops - triops cancriformis

LOOK AT THIS CHRICHUUR!!!

Aka tadpole shrimp!

They are believed to be one of the oldest living creatures living on earth, they've been here since 220 million years ago with almost no changes to their form!

They live in Europe, in temporary pools on spring. They leave their eggs burrowed in the sand and once it rains again they hatch and start their cycle all over again. Kinda like the killi!

If the oxygen gets low, they can flip with their bellies facing up to get oxygen from the atmosphere.

They feed on plankton and whatever they can unburrow from the mud, usually worms and smaller crustaceans.

They have 3 eyes too!

Did you spot them? 👀👁

I love living among fossils! 🫶🦖

When I saw this thingylingy I KNEW i had to share it with you!

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[ratbugs]

Triops Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)

Triops Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)

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