Friday, May 14, 2010

♫ 1980's Music Weekend Begins! ~ Sea-Monkeys

What a FUN, deceptive, and disappointing toy.

They are a variant of brine shrimp or Artemia salina, a species which enters cryptobiosis, a natural state of suspended animation, allowing their cysts (dormant saclike embryos) to be distributed and sold as a dry powder. When the "powder" is poured into saltwater, the Sea-Monkeys start to come out of their cysts.
The "real" Sea-Monkeys.

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