Warren Currie 🦠🦐<p>Weekend <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plankton</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Factoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Factoid</span></a> 🦐🦠</p><p>Triops (three-eyed), tadpole shrimp are in the news because they were hatching at the flooded out burning man festival. They are freshwater <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/crustaceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crustaceans</span></a>, sometimes called dinosaur shrimp, because they have had this armored tadpole look since the Devonian 300M years ago. Triops spp. (order Notostraca), are <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/extremeophiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremeophiles</span></a> which can survive dried out to hatch and reproduce decades later from resistant diapause eggs in these ephemeral pools.<br><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/three-eyed-dinosaur-shrimp-are-waking-up-at-burning-man-70529" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">iflscience.com/three-eyed-dino</span><span class="invisible">saur-shrimp-are-waking-up-at-burning-man-70529</span></a></p>