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 ...

Sea-monkeys is the marketing term used for a hybrid breed of brine shrimp sold in packets of dust in aquarium shops. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Some good news economically — and ecologically — for the Great Salt Lake. A forecast by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is giving "good" chances for the annual brine shrimp ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...