A thick, chocolaty sludge has formed on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, and state parks officials say talk of an oil slick is unfounded. It’s actually more gooey and disgusting than that. What’s floating atop ...
What look like oil slicks on the surface of the Great Salt Lake are actually congregations of billions of brine shrimp eggs, known as cysts, that form when wind and currents align in certain ways. But ...
Brine shrimp, and brine shrimp eggs, are teeny-tiny. But by analyzing the light they reflect, scientists can now identify aggregations of them from space. Hans Hillewaert via Wikipedia It’s become a ...
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Every year in mid-May, a little-known holiday rolls around for a very specific set of pet owners. National Sea Monkey Day is—unofficially—May 16, in celebration of the tiny aquatic creatures that have ...
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SALT LAKE CITY — Some good news economically — and ecologically — for the Great Salt Lake. A forecast by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is giving "good" chances for the annual brine shrimp ...
Salt Lake City — Tiny shrimp eggs have been showing up in such huge numbers in Utah's Great Salt Lake that some parts of the lake look covered with an oil slick. Cold weather in fall or winter causes ...
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