One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

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Photos into the newsroom show shrimp in Joshua Tree National Park. Park rangers shared photos of shrimp in the Barker Dam Reservoir inside Joshua Tree National Park. What you're looking at is a ...

Three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” are stirring in the Nevada desert after flooding upended the Burning Man festival. Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in ...

You won’t find fairy shrimp on the Red Lobster menu, however, you will find them swimming at Joshua Tree National Park. Last month, Tropical Storm Hilary dropped 1 to 4 inches of rain on different ...