If you’re in the market for a low-cost, low-maintenance, low-commitment but high-interest pet, you can’t do better than triops. What are triops? Also known as tadpole shrimp, triops are a kind of ...

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 ...

We've been raising triops again. I wanted to bring some of the prehistoric crustaceans, which have adapted to life in temporary pools by laying eggs which can stay dormant for years, to my first ...

My son ended up with a multi-activity science kit - magic rocks, magic sand, etc. The coolest thing by far to come out of the kit was "prehistoric sea monsters", aka triops longicaudatus. Read the ...

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Triops are a group of freshwater crustaceans commonly called tadpole shrimp or dinosaur shrimp. They look like ancient armored tadpoles, a look they've rocked for hundreds of millions of years. The ...