0 World's Oldest Living Species Found

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The Tadpole shrimp Triops Cancriformis is found in the Caerlaverock nature reserve in Dumfriesshire at Scotland. This species is considered as to be the Oldest species on the earth.
Triopes is one of the genus of small Crustaceans. It is the freshwater animals and sometimes they are kept as pets. Triopes are also known as the "Living Fossils", It is because one of the species, which is triops cancriformis, changed very littile since the Triassic. Approximately it is arround 220 Million Years ago. Triops gives the eggs, which comes in the state of extended diapause, when its dry. They then waits for many years for the water, At that time they hatches and starts their life cycle again. Triopes are called so because of they having three eyes.

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