Something stirs in the desert – the rain has come. After years of drought drained the reservoirs and baked the land, finally the rain has come. With it wakes a league of beings alien to our time.

Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth or human ancestors swung from trees, triops were there. Now, millions of years later, they're right here in Albuquerque -- a whole puddle full.Nelson Gallegos made ...

Hundreds of three-eyed critters have emerged in Arizona following a torrential summer downpour that awakened them from their potentially decades-long slumber. As reported by Live Science, the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history. A colony of prehistoric triops, a tadpole shrimp that’s existed for hundreds of millions of years, was beautifully captured by ...