Welcome to brain Stuff from how stuff works dot com where smart Happens. Hi Marshall Brain with today's question, how do sea monkeys work? Sea monkeys are really a type of Brian shrimp, and Brian shrimp are an incredibly cool life form. Brian shrimp are naturally found in salt lakes like the Great Salt Lake in Utah. In a salt lake like this, the water is so salty that the only things living in it are the Brian shrimp and certain types of algae on which the Brian shrimp feed.
One of the things that make Brian shrimp fascinating is their ability to lay encapsulated eggs called cysts, assist can dry out and remain viable for years. If you put Brian shrimp cysts in salt water, they hatch very quickly. In the shrimp mature in about eight days. They can grow to be pretty big for a Brian shrimp, about half an inch long. If you want to raise your own Brian shrimp, you can do it inexpensively by buying
the eggs at a pet store. People who keep aquariums often raise their own bright and shrimp at home to feed to their fish. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for this podcast. If so, please send me an email at podcast at how stuff works dot com. For more on this and thousands of other topics, go to how stuff works dot com.