Hi Sarah
A belated Happy New Year to you, your grandmother and fiancé, the dog and (not forgetting) the Triopses.
Congratulations on finally finding a variety of Triops which appears to be ready to cooperate and behave itself. Now I can see them properly (in your photo) they look at little like Morton Bay Bugs - a seafood I particularly like. Breed 'em big enough and you may have created a new eating experience.
I thought of you the other day when I came across
this experiment conducted by the Harvard Medical School back in 2016.
The experiment basically shows
E. Coli bacteria evolving to cope with increasingly higher doses of antibiotic. Within ten days the bacteria produced mutant varieties capable of coping with an antibiotic dose 1000 times the normal killing dose. The time lapse photography of the bacteria moving across zones of increasingly higher doses of antibiotic is an impressive reminder of the power of evolution in developing bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
Click on the
video embedded in the page - it tells the story far better than I can.
OB