Being infected with a parasite is usually not good news. Some of the critters can make you sick, and some will eventually kill you. And studies have found that when an animal has to deal with both a ...

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Brine shrimp of the genus Artemia are small crustaceans that can thrive in environments where sodium concentrations are as high as 25% (more than eight times typical ocean sea water). Also known by ...

A $10 kids’ toy claims it can bring back creatures from 400 million years ago. I hatched millions of sea monkeys (brine ...

The tiny critters are found around the world — in Utah they're in the Great Salt Lake. Brine shrimp provide food for fish and commercially grown shrimp — a multi-million dollar industry in Utah. Good ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about ...

Crashing waves aren’t the only tumultuous parts of the sea. Far beneath any ocean’s surface, immensely heavy layers of water are constantly turning over, like the icy contents of 7-Eleven Slurpee ...

Learn about the brine shrimp of the Great Salt Lake and the threats these creatures face. Brine shrimping is a multi-million-dollar industry dedicated to supplying fish food for aquaculture. The brine ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 137 into law March 17, according to the legislature’s website. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on February 17 and the state Senate on March ...

Harvesting brine shrimp cysts from Great Salt Lake, Utah. A male brine shrimp uses large claspers to grasp a female for mating. In October of 1951, a letter appeared in The Aquarium, a magazine for ...