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Can anyone tell me what these are ?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../weirdfish.jpg

they are triops
similar to brineshrimp/sea monkeys

very common out west in any puddle that forms after rain
that said fish love to eat them so never found together
Very ancient life form
we are talking like really old
billions of years?

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No, not billions, but hundreds of millions.

thats still dam old!
I know if your in WA ya can go to that place with the weird headlike
things at the beach....
um stomphotes or something like that
3.8 billion year old fossil things.

Stromatolites, created by blue-green bacteria (not as the press like to call
them blue-green algae)
http://www.sharkbay.org/terrestial_e...nt/page_15.htm


crazy stuff,
not that the land coming alive with weird horseshoe crab things when it
rains isn't weird tho.
triops are great
silver lining for me once on a trip that saw us dig the 4WD outta mud
about 50 times