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How One Shrimp Used Its Survival Skills to Become Both Best-Selling Pet and Astronaut: Media

In 1972 “America’s favorite aquatic pets” went to the Moon.

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Brine shrimp (Artemia salina)
Newly hatched brine shrimp (Artemia salina) are sold in the pet trade as...
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