Originally published at: Hundreds of rare three-eyed crustaceans found in Arizona desert after a storm | Boing Boing
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Any recipes for dinosaur shrimp anyone?
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Now why did God put that in Arizona? Hmmmm…
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Eye eye eye see see see what what what you you you did did did there there there!!!
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Hmm, first thing I thought was it looked like a horseshoe crab…
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Yay, friends for Blinky!
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I don’t think they’re rare. My kids had a triops aquarium kinda thingie. Kind of like Sea Monkeys: you filled it with water and added some triops eggs food and presto - instant life forms! They were gross and ended up eating each other until there was only one large one left.
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Neat! I’ve seen videos of them - but never seen on IRL.
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So - you basically made Triops Thunderdome?
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Yeah, inadvertently. We did read some where that they were cannibals. One day we had 8 swimming around in the little tank, then there were 5 … count down to 1. “It’s the circle of life, kids.”
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I made the mistake of buying two Oscar fish once. Or maybe they were the same sex, I dunno, but one chased the other around until it died. It never messed with any of the other fish, just that one.
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few side notes:
Mosquitos eggs can also dessicate and rehydrate to hatch after a rain like the triops
The triop’s third eye is an ocellus not a compound eye (simpler eye, single lens, not used for resolving images)
Horseshoe crabs have a lot more than three; they have are 10 distinct areas of photoreceptors:
Mammals are just so boring. Arthropoda has an endless reserve of creatures that prompt a “holy shit, what is that thing?”
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I agree! And all the old fossils, like trilobites!
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Yeah they creeped me out and they did eat each other.
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Something something “mysteeeeeeeerioooussss waysssssss”…
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They seem pretty common, both the ghost and giant varieties at science gift shops and craft stores that have science kits.
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now I am really wanting to hear you tell about the time a kid and parent came in to have you treat little Johnny’s “pet” triops!
“It is my professional opinion, son, that when triops present upside down, floating in this manner, they are not likely to recover.”
“sorry for your loss…”
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It might be the same recipe mentioned in that very old joke on how to prepare and cook owls.
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