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  • The Triops is a rugged digital camera that can actually be thrown by photography buffs interested in capturing some unique images.

    Possibly the world’s smallest camera stand 2007

  • They received the ‘Unit’ the Triops eggs, tiny miniscule dots in the test tubes, but in one short week they grew into prehistoric-looking creatures almost the length of your thumb.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Red 2007

  • Este recebiam o kit "Unit" compostos por ovos de Triops en tubos de ensaio que após uma semana cresciam assemelhando-se a criaturas pré-históricas.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Red 2007

  • Este recebiam o kit "Unit" compostos por ovos de Triops en tubos de ensaio que após uma semana cresciam assemelhando-se a criaturas pré-históricas.

    National Geographic Kids Red 2007

  • They received the ‘Unit’ the Triops eggs, tiny miniscule dots in the test tubes, but in one short week they grew into prehistoric-looking creatures almost the length of your thumb.

    National Geographic Kids Red 2007

  • Other life forms triggered by rainfall include the fascinating ‘instant crustacean’ (Triops); this creature lies dormant for years until the arrival of a rainstorm and then hatches, moults from its cyst, and grows to its full size within the space of several days.

    Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands 2008

  • Invertebrates are poorly known but include fairy shrimp Imnadopsis sp. and shield shrimp Triops australiensis, which exploit seasonal rock pools.

    Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia 2008

  • Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • ((LACUNA)) .... you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Unfortunately the Triops is currently in the concept stage, but my guess is that we will see some crappy art school projects done with it sooner than you might think.

    Possibly the world’s smallest camera stand 2007

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