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20-Feb-07, 09:12 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: NSW Age: 33 | | | Photo of a little critter whilst on a walk.
What do you call these?
Shingle backs or Sleepy Lizards???
Anyways, I came across this one while on a walk, so cute. I loved the colours.. 
Isn't it gorgeous.. 
And this is not the lizzy, but a Shrill Shrimpy thing in the water near by..Apparently they are very very old. 
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20-Feb-07, 09:15 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20  | | | |
Yeah thats a 'shield shrimp' or "billabong bug" VERY old. Also very cool.
And the shingle back is a little sweetie!
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20-Feb-07, 09:17 AM
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A sheild Shrimp. Ohhhh..Ooops, I got it wrong..
They are a very strange site, we had rains here a month or so ago and now we have a lake, first time in ten years..yay...But those little critters are everywhere
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20-Feb-07, 09:18 AM
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Yeah, they work the same as sea monkeys. Their eggs lay dormant forrrreevvver and when conditions are right they hatch and grow really fast. You can buy them in some petshops as a "just add water" pet. I had a tank of them once. Very cool.
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20-Feb-07, 09:21 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/water/shrimp.htm
they are cool little critters,the eggs can blow around in the desert dust for years and then hatch after a rain..im impressed
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20-Feb-07, 09:23 AM
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I call them stumpies all the other names toake too long to say.
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20-Feb-07, 09:23 AM
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And they look like trilobite fossils hahaha.
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20-Feb-07, 09:27 AM
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Thanks for the link there sssnakeman.
They truely are an amazing site, actually...having a lake in the desert is an amazing site..hehehe
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20-Feb-07, 03:51 PM
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cute shingleback
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20-Feb-07, 04:15 PM
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The Shingle Back has great colours.
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20-Feb-07, 04:25 PM
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Great pics! I envy the lucky people who live in places that have shinglebacks just lying around all over the ground everywhere. What bliss! 
That shrimpy is a fascinating little critter. And so cute. I wonder if they bite.
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20-Feb-07, 05:19 PM
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Nice pics, that stumpy is a stunner, typical yellow and black SA colours 
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20-Feb-07, 05:21 PM
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cute shrimp, reminds me of a horse shoe crab
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20-Feb-07, 05:29 PM
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thats cool...nice shingleback
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20-Feb-07, 05:30 PM
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nice looking shingle back
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