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Horseshoe crabs are arthropods that have changed little since their initial appearance on earth over 450 million years ago. Raising horseshoe crabs in a home aquarium is possible, but requires a great ...

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 ...

TTUHSC’s Pablo Artigas, Ph.D., led a research team that examined the advantages a NKA α subunit variant provides to the ability of brine shrimp to survive in extreme salinity. Their study was ...