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 ...

John Dabiri isn’t an oceanographer. And he’s not a biologist. But for more than a decade, he’s been studying tiny shrimp swimming through water. It hasn’t always been easy. John Dabiri isn’t an ...

They never built castles like we were promised in the ads on the back of comic books, but it turns out that Sea Monkeys (a.k.a. brine shrimp) might have the power to move oceans and transport ...

Jaimi Butler started her career as the only woman on a brine shrimp harvesting rig on Great Salt Lake. Butler has since made a name for herself as a Great Salt Lake scientist, an advocate, writer, and ...

They were actually brine shrimp--tiny crustaceans known for their ability to survive in very salty waters, not so much in the ocean but in inland salt lakes and slat flats. In 1957 a man named Harold ...