Tadpole Shrimp facts: aka triops facts (and more!) | Animal Fact Files
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2020
- Tadpole shrimp are also know as shield shrimp thanks to their shield like carapaces. They are also called "triops" though there are technically two genera of living tadpole shrimp with Triops being one of these. These small crustaceans are often referred to as living fossils because they have a similar body pattern to their prehistoric ancestors.
Scientific Name: Order - Notostraca
Range: worldwide except Antartica
Size: average 2 inches (5cm) - not including tail!
Diet: detritus and small organisms
Lifespan: decades in diapause; less than a year as adults
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I had one of these as a kid! Almost thought I had fabricated that memory hahaha. Thanks guys for confirming 👍
Glad we could help clear things up! Must have been really neat to see one in the wild!!
I like how the horseshoe-shaped shield evolved in multiple unrelated animals numerous times. Appearing in triops, horseshoe crabs, eurypterids, and even in the vertebrate ostracoderms.
Can confirm the eggs survival.
Heres in the desert,its been raining more than usual .
These little guys came out like crazy along with all the frogs.
Neat stuff
I found one of these in a small pool of water after it rained heavily in literally the middle of the desert in New Mexico with absolutely no permanent body of water nearby. This was in the early 2000s when it used to rain a lot now it doesn't. I kept thinking to myself I had a horseshoe crab but it didn't make sense to me at the time because of where I found it (was in elementary school)
What an awesome find!
They're pretty odd looking, huh? This is my first exposure to tadpole shrimp. Thanks for the video, as always. Keep 'em coming.
Their tails are very strange to me. Glad you learned something new!! 😊
You guys should do a whole episode on Chester. Also, loved the video guys! Keep up the good work!
We technically have an episode on him (it was an April Fool's episode): ua-cam.com/video/Yh_Jc4cgNKs/v-deo.html
It would be fun to do an actual fact file on him, though. Haha!
Thanks so much for watching. 🙂
Animal Fact Files You could also do an episode on house cats
We decided to stick to wild animals, so we did the cats from which domestic cats are believed to have been domesticated: ua-cam.com/video/brqV7uNhWAo/v-deo.html
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Wow. These are amazing. I cannot believe how amazing those look! :D
Agreed! They're some really neat looking animals. 🙂
Animal Fact Files They are like no other animal I have ever seen.
You guys may be a small channel, but you guys are very nice. I like that this channel is small because if it wasn't you guys wouldn't be able to reply to everyone like you do.
We definitely try! That's important to us, so even if the channel grows we want to do our best to stay in touch with you all.
Horseshoe crab: i haven’t evolved in 400 million years!!!
Triop: hold my beer
very interesting and nice bird shirping in the background
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it ❤️
Easy to collect eggs with a small container of sand about a half inch deep. You see them bury eggs take it out and dry them up you will have a lot. Drop some in a separate container to hatch the big ones will eat them. When they are half the size mix them in you will have a never ending supply of these little creatures to watch
Had one of these in class during elementary school.
These are much cooler than sea monkeys, I think I got some as a kid once.
I had sea monkeys myself. Wish I had these!
I had no idea these little things were predatory in behavior.
Kind of amazing how food chains can work out!
i have a canal in my back yard just filled with these things. i put crawfish traps and every day i pull up about 30 in each trap haha
Oh wow! That's so many!!
Idk who calls these tadpole shrimp, they are triops otherwise known as dinosaur shrimp, because they have been around for almost 300 millions years
Renge sent me here
This is the first time i see tadpole shrimp, i cant find them anywhere in my country.
I see very similar creatures in the rio grande, they stick to my chest when I jus sit they're for hours and they tickle, the only difference is they're almost completely black and I don't see the eyes ? Does anyone know what creature I'm talking about ?
Oh that's tough to say! There are so many amazing animals out there. Perhaps you're seeing actual tadpoles (the reason for this animal's namesake)??
@@AnimalFactFiles they also have little brushy legs and two "stingers" idk what else to call them , but they could be some werid specie of bull frog tadpole I've never seen before!?
They look related to Horseshoe crabs.
What if you put those things on Mars, maybe they will survive
Pls do thresher shark
Awesome suggestion! We'll add that to our list. Thanks! 😊
These things are surprisingly hyperactive.
Have you ever done a striped pajama squid episode?
We have not! We'll have to get that out our list. 🙂 Thanks for the suggestion!
Animal Fact Files when it comes out, I’m exited to watch it!
cuter than you think.
Brine shrimps
Toreto
Cool video, too much bird..
I like the birds
there is one horseshoe crab among us