Ok biology fedi, WTF are these? They look like a miniature horseshoe crabs. I have never seen them before! These are in an ephemeral pool in the slickrock in SE Utah, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, about 5,000 feet elevation. They are a couple inches long. From above I first thought they were tadpoles but I didn't see their tails wiggling as they swam so I went down for a closer look.

#arthropods #Invertebrates #WhatTheFuckIsThis

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 @ad39b1fd  Looks like one of the tadpole shrimp (order Notostraca). 

 #asknostr 

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 Quick google photo search tells me it’s a “Tadpole Shrimp”