Be careful when digging holes in Russia! At a Construction site in Chelyabinsk city, a 5 foot long ’something out of this world’ was caught. While digging a foundation ditch at a construction site, workers discovered an underground river. Later, they noticed some movement in the water. They threw in some of their lunch, and it stirred even more. They eventually caught this creature and pulled it out of its home. They said it was aggressive and tried to bite them, so in a big panic they killed it. You be the judge fact or fiction… Does anyone know what this is? 
6 Comments Received
June 19th, 2008 @9:01 pm
it’s a triop - in fact no more than about 3cm in length - look closely at the photo - that’s not a drain cover, it’s a piece of plastic, and the water droplets is of the wrong scale.
still cool though - triops are fascinating/disgusting in equal measure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triop
June 22nd, 2008 @5:38 pm
It looks a little like a horseshoe crab…But much freakier!
June 26th, 2008 @10:31 am
What an interesting little creature - amazing!
June 27th, 2008 @4:03 am
You can get triops kits to grow them at home, like the old brine shrimp “Sea Monkey” kits. I think we’ve gotten them at Target, but just call around or search Google Maps to find somewhere near you that sells them.
Or you can order them online. The dried eggs keep well enough that they can just ship you an envelope of them. They’re cheap, too.
July 17th, 2008 @7:49 am
Here in indonesia we call it “mimi”, it similar to that but a little bit different tails…, we had a lot of that in our shore…
Cool animal…
August 3rd, 2008 @1:52 pm
ITS AN ALIEN!!
WOW
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