Triops…prehistoric creatures that survive in suspended animation through droughts and dry spells until re-animated by coming into contact with water. This is not science fiction. It’s not even science class. Triops are real-life animals that have an appearance somewhere between a shrimp and a cockroach, but with three eyes. THREE.
The Triassic Triops kit comes with a tank and a pouch of Triops eggs which you add to water. 24 hours later, boom. Hatched.
A guy in my office got some of these and put the tank on his desk. Everybody kept checking in to see what was going on because the minute those little things hatched, it was Darwin time. After a day, two of them ganged up on the third and ate him. A couple of days after that, one of the last two got big enough to overpower the other and eat him. Survival of the fittest in action.
