It’s more likely than you think. Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com There’s not much to say about this video, really. It’s a ribcage with triops crawling over it and through it and munching away at it.
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triops in my ribcage part 1 of 3
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old battered triops cancriformis
Transcript: This individual has seen better days, but she still has some life in her. She’s recently moulted, which is why the speckle pattern on her carapace is particularly vivid, and more of a blue-grey than the usual brown. As the carapace matures, it will turn brown and the speckles will become less apparent.
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Triops consume dinosaur carcass
200 million years ago, at the dawn of the age of dinosaurs, bizarre creatures stalked the water like piranhas from a primordial hell. Although capable predators that could overpower prey many times their size, they were also voracious scavengers. Upon detecting a corpse with their acute sense of smell, they would quickly locate it and begin stripping it to the bone with a combination of powerful jaws and strange blade-like legs. End transcript. ===================== Okay, so Triops aren’t quite that fearsome, but Triops cancriformis really has survived as a species for 200 million years, since the upper Triassic, and I used a real dinosaur carcass; it’s the rib cage and part of the spinal column of a modern avian dinosaur, specifically a chicken. I spent a lot of time experimenting with various sound effects for this video. For the water sounds, I taped a microphone to a camera tripod and positioned it close to a large bucket of water, which I stirred with my hands and various other objects. Using Audacity, I then cut out the best segments from the recordings, removed any intrusive pops and bangs and decreased the speed by 89% to give it a deeper and more muffled sound. I arranged the segments semi-randomly across 6 layers, with each layer panning 30%, 50% or 60% to the left or right, to achieve the shifting stereo effect. The animal sounds were a bit more complicated. I recorded myself producing various vocalisations and ended up with around 25 short clips that each …
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Triops
Triops are a three-eyed form of hard-shelled shrimp that have barely evolved in the last 70 million years, and are commonly referred to as living fossils. They are available as Sea Monkey-esque pets. I would recommend it if you enjoy growing creepy things. Unnecessary backstory: The directions advise that you only grow half of the eggs just in case you screw up the first time, and not to add the eggs later because the matured triops will eat them. This was not just true of the eggs; the single triops in the rounded jar ate all of the other specimens in the first batch. It was removed and the rest of the eggs were added. This out-of-focus video was shot somewhere around the end of that week during feeding. Soon after, the older lone triops developed a horrific growth and ceased to be. Soon after that, the larger of the two younger triops was found floating in the tank half-devoured. The last triops died days later. That last week was a horrific freakshow, but look at how cute they were here! Music: DJ TAKA – Blueberry Stream
Triops
Neat little crustaceans with an attitude!