Arizona Has Strange Creatures

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-shrimp-emerge-arizona

 

 

 

[Pat Riot]

Trilobites?

 

 

[Yellowhouse Sam # 25171]

Tadpole shrimp is the common name.  We use to play with them when they hatched out in the many playa lakes in northwest Texas.  Ducks and Sandhills cranes love em.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

I thought this was going to be about Forty Rod!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

It is!

 

We have thousands of fossilized critters, trilobites and others, in the rocks in the canyons east of Logan Utah, where I used to live.  Also entire ledges and banks of fossilized sea shells, mostly quite small, up there as well, all around 7,000-9,000 feet altitude.

 

Over south east near Vernal they have bigger fossils of Jurassic Park size dinosaurs.

 

At one time all of that area was under water, known as Lake Bonneville, a huge inland sea.  The Great Salt Lake and some smaller lakes are remnants of that.  GSL has only one form of sea life called brine shrimp, because of the salt content.

 

All of that ancient life and I've never seen any of it alive.

 

Oldest living animal I ever saw was my high school history teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kid Rich]

The father of your history teacher was teachin Civil War history in Machias Maine in the early 70's. He was reputed to be a Civil War vet.

kR

[Texas Joker]

Triops you can buy them at hobby lobby and hatch em. 

 

Triops have 3 eyes! They are vegetarian except when they are cannibalistic.

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

They have them on Amazon, too.  When you get them, you might as well get a Sea Monkey set too.