Scientists baffled by giant shrimp in Ukraine
Published: 29 May, 2008, 10:12
Edited: 24 November, 2009, 14:33
Tests are being carried out on a strange creature caught in the Donetsk region of western Ukraine. Images of the weird shrimp-like animal were first captured on a mobile phone camera.
AHHH...how far away was this from Kiev and the nuclear "accident"!?
It looks like a horseshoe crab.
Robert, a few days after Katrina I saw an egret in missouri; i guess animals just get lost sometimes. About the shrimp: it's clearly a triops but twice the size of the previous record holder. Hobbists pay well for unusual varieties. I would like to find the guy who collected this.
this is what the smaller versions of the tadpole shrimp look like: http://images.devilfinder.com/go.php?filter=off&page=2&q=tadpole+shrimp
I say horse shoe crab. We use to find them on the beach in florida all the time.
A lot of Roberts in this thread.... Anyway, I'm a biology major and I've written an article on tadpole shrimp. One of this size is unusual but not unheard of, particularly in very remote areas. There are dozens of species. Also, in the video you can't see anything to indicate scale, so it could just be a regular sized tadpole shrimp/Triop.
Can you eat it? Let's have a Chernobyl Shrimp Cocktail!
May 30, 2009 Caught A Stripped Bass with Manta shrimp in it's stomach contents. I'm baffled by this because Manta shrimp are found in tropical waters.