Northern Arizona has had heavy monsoon rain this summer, causing hundreds of "three-eyed dinosaur shrimp" to emerge and swim in makeshift lakes in the desert. The "Three-Eyed Dinosaur Shrimp" looks like the "Three-Eyed Alien", and their eggs sleep in the desert for decades, waiting for the sky to fall, and then break out of their shells in the rain.
Arizona appeared "three-eyed dinosaur shrimp" appeared. (Pictured by Wupatki National Monument)
According to Live Science, Lauren Carter of the Wupatki National Monument in Arizona said that after heavy summer rainfall in northern Arizona, hundreds of exotic creatures appeared to swim around a lake that had formed briefly in the desert, called "triops," also known as "three-eyed dinosaur shrimp," belonging to the order Tadpole shrimps) creature, considered to be a living fossil
From the official release of the photo, it can be seen that the staff lay a three-eyed dinosaur shrimp in his hand, with 3 eyes on his head, a curved tail, and the end split into two thin whiskers.
Carter pointed out that the eggs of the three-eyed dinosaur shrimp could sleep in the desert for decades until there was enough rain to form lakes that allowed the body to develop and mate. Ancestors appeared in the Devonian Period (419 million to 359 million years ago), and their appearance has not changed to this day, but the structure is still different, "I would not call them living fossils, which will cause public misconceptions, because they just look very similar to their ancestors." 」 ”
It is understood that the appearance of the long-tailed horseshoe is white, the dorsal carapace is wider, forming a beautiful curve, the abdomen is shorter, and the gill feet are bright red. It can be through sexual reproduction, but when it is small, it will transform into hermaphrodites, and females can even reproduce parthenogenesis.