Hi, I'm Josh Clark.
And have you ever wondered
what sea monkeys are?
Well I'm here to tell
you, they ain't monkeys.
Turns out they're
brine shrimp, which
are pretty cool little
creatures in and of themselves.
And brine shrimp are
found in Salt lakes.
Little lakes that are
so high in salt content,
you usually only find
the brine shrimp,
and the algae they feed
on living in there.
Nothing else can survive.
Which makes the brine shrimp
and their algae friends,
extremophiles, which
are life forms that
are sponsored by Mountain Dew.
The other cool thing
about brine shrimp
is that they can survive
up to 25 years encapsulated
in what are known
as cysts, which
are kind of protective layers
that form around their eggs.
And a lot of brine shrimp
just kind of sit there
in suspended animation.
And the cysts can actually dry
out and survive just sitting
there on the vast drive plains
of the Salt Lake in Utah.
When you get sea monkeys, that
is what comes in the packet.
Add some salt water
and the egg hatches.
And within about
8 to 10 days, you
have a fully grown half inch
Brian shrimp, aka a sea monkey.
So now you know, sea
monkeys aren't monkeys.
But they are brine shrimp.
And brine shrimp
are pretty cool.
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