Ancient species of shrimp discovered

That's an interesting find. Long ago I read in a book about desert fauna of some desert shrimp in America, also a 'living fossil' : vernal tadpole shrimp / Lepidurus packardi .

Water bears are awesomeness incarnate. That's one weird looking shrimp. Break out the garlic and butter I prefer cocktail sauce.. ketchup fresh lemon juice and horseradish.. lots of horseradish

Lovely part of the country too!

The shrimps are adapted to living in temporary water pools. When the water dries up, the adults die but leave behind eggs that can remain dormant for years until wet conditions return. That's way cool...

i wonder if they are tasty? haha, great news though... makes me think that just maybe EARTH isnt as bad off as everyone thinks to have a species last that long...

That's way cool... Water bears are so much cooler: "Tardigrades are polyextremophiles and are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures of -273°C (-460 °F) , close to absolute zero,[5] temperatures as high as 151 °C (303 °F), 1,000 times more radiation than other animals,[6] and almost a decade without water.[7] In September 2007, tardigrades were taken into low Earth orbit on the FOTON-M3 mission and for 10 days were exposed to the vacuum of space. After they were returned to Earth, it was discovered that many of them su... [More]

These things are common. (plus 200 million years is a exageration, the old reported figure was 70 million). It was these creatures that the original 'predator' from the movies was based on (the mandibles) etc, i read something with the original concept artist stating that he 'had a dream about a humanoid creature with Mandibles, much like the tadpole shrimp'.

I prefer cocktail sauce.. ketchup fresh lemon juice and horseradish.. lots of horseradish it doesn't look like there much meat

it doesn't look like there much meat Yeah, it looks like most of their body mass is exoskeleton, and being as small as they are, they aren't really worth extracting the meat from.

I would love to hatch some of these in my 10 gallon tank 10 gallon might be too small though...