#longtail tadpole shrimp

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Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) © Greg Lasley

[ID 1: A many-coloured bunting stands in shallow water. It has a blue head, green wings and back, and a red, orange, and yellow belly. It is well-reflected on the still water. /End ID.]

Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) © Lee Hoy

[ID 2: A ringtail crouches on the branch of a dead tree. The mammal has a small, pointy face with large dark eyes and cat-like ears. It has a long bushy tail with black and white rings. /End ID.]

Diamondback Watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer) © Marissa Little

[ID 3: A brown snake with dark markings along it’s sides. It is curled up inside a lawnmower amid the wires and mechanisms. /End ID.]

Swan Flower (Aristolochia erecta) © Mikael Behrens

[ID 4: A pipe-like flower stands upright. The lower part of the flower is smooth and green and leads up to a tongue-shaped top that is pale with dark red splotches and speckles. /End ID.]

Longtail Tadpole Shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) © Robby Deans

[ID 5: An aquatic pinkish-translucent shrimp-like crustacean steps over moss. It has a shield-like carapace and a thick, ridged “tail”. /End ID.]

Rio Grande Siren (Siren intermedia ssp. texana) © Michael Powell

[ID 6: A dark green amphibian with small front limbs and no hind limbs is supported in both of a person’s hands. /End ID.]

Slender Orange-Bush (Teloschistes exilis) © mgram55

[ID 7: A leafless, lichen-covered branch is host to a bushy yellow lichen. At the end of the branches of the lichen are bright orange discs. /End ID.]

Rainbow Grasshopper (Dactylotum bicolor) © ellen hildebrandt

[ID 8: A grasshopper is boldly marked with bright orange and dark blue on a whitish base colour. /End ID.]

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Kaiyodo Furuta Chocoegg:

Ant lion (Hagenomyia micans)

Longtail tadpole shrimp (Triops longicaudatus)

Sika deer fawn (Cervus nippon)

Black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor)

Shining leptoma (Leptopoma vitreum)

Green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor)

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Three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge by the hundreds from Arizona desert

Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ emerge by the hundreds from Arizona desert

Hundreds of three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” hatch in the Arizona desert after a rare torrential rainfall. Hundreds of three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” sprouted out of the northern Arizona desert this summer after a rare downpour created small pools of water that prompted decades-old eggs to hatch. Officials of the National Parks Service in Arizona discovered hundreds of hatchlings of longtail tadpole…