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       Tree shrimp discovered
       By: Thetis099 Date: December 5, 2023, 8:48 am
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       Yep, that's right, a tree dwelling shrimp!  Not that surprising
       to me since arthropods are everywhere, on land and in the sea -
       but think of the evolutionary pressures required for coming from
       water onto land.  That is a complicated environment swap.  There
       must have been some really good food niche on land ripe to be
       exploited or something similar.
       Random brain ramble:  It usually does not hit for people when I
       remind them that an arthropod is an arthropod, and there isn't
       really very much difference between the meat of a cricket, June
       Bug beetle, or cockroach and that of a shrimp, crab or lobster.
       For example, depending on how they are cooked, tarantula spiders
       are said to taste of crab or shrimp.  I believe humans will have
       no choice but to eat the things we can propagate easily and
       cheaply with what's left of the environment we have ravaged in
       the not so distant future - cricket meal is cheap and easy to
       produce, and it is highly nutritious.  I expect we will eat a
       lot of algae too.
       This is so rad!  I hope they can work out the life history of
       the tree shrimp, because I have so many biology nerd questions
       already - does it breathe like other land arthropods or does it
       have a hybrid respiratory system, what does it eat and how does
       it eat, does reproduction require a non-ephemeral body of water,
       etc.
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