A thick, chocolaty sludge has formed on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, and state parks officials say talk of an oil slick is unfounded. It’s actually more gooey and disgusting than that. What’s floating atop ...

SALT LAKE CITY—Turns out magical “sea monkeys” in the Great Salt Lake are pretty valuable as shrimp food, too. This year, the state of Utah stands to make one of its biggest windfalls ever from the ...

Brine shrimp, and brine shrimp eggs, are teeny-tiny. But by analyzing the light they reflect, scientists can now identify aggregations of them from space. Hans Hillewaert via Wikipedia It’s become a ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake shared photos on Facebook showing the water is covered with a murky “oil slick” that is actually trillions of shrimp eggs Utah State Parks photo A thick, chocolaty sludge has ...

What look like oil slicks on the surface of the Great Salt Lake are actually congregations of billions of brine shrimp eggs, known as cysts, that form when wind and currents align in certain ways. But ...

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An extinct creature has risen from the dead, well, sort of. The creature — which once swam in salty water in Kazakhstan — was hatched from decades-old eggs, cloned and identified by scientists as a ...