Triops belong to an ancient group of crustaceans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Triops are a group of freshwater crustaceans ...

Try to picture a tiny, transparent crustacean that looks like a hybrid of a centipede and a horseshoe crab with a zillion writhing legs. While they’re not likely to win any beauty contests, triops are ...

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The tadpole shrimp (Notostraca: Triops) have been called living fossils with conserved morphology, but subtle morphological variations within and between species has yielded confused taxonomic ...

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 ...

The presence of non-cladoceran branchiopods was detected in only 16 out of 83 temporary freshwater ponds of SW Portugal, which were recently sampled by the authors and other researchers. Two ...