This muddy hellscape has proven a fertile oasis for these living fossils.
, the event was recently crashed by a Biblical plague of three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp,” which wriggled to the surface of the Nevada desert to join the party., the prehistoric critters had been lying dormant in subterranean egg cases for days.
This caused hours-long traffic jams as thousands of stranded Burning Man revelers scrambled to flee the annual bash, which runs from August 27 to September 4. Tadpole shrimp’s most notable features are their shield-like body and third eye , which make them seem futuristic — think the robotic scorpion used to track Neo in “The Matrix.”
This land mass now incorporates present-day South America, Africa, East Asia, Australia and Antarctica. Naturally, the idea of hundreds of prehistoric prawns hatching amid one of the US’ biggest bashes might sound like the plot to a bad horror movie.feed on plant matter, algae and even mosquito larvaeNeedless to say, this veritable triop-topia proved a purgatory for the 70,000 attendees, who were stuck for days in the muddy desert.
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