what is a sea monkey?

Answer 1

Sea-Monkeys® are a true miracle of nature. They exist in suspended animation inside their tiny eggs for many years. The instant-life crystals, in which the eggs are enclosed, preserve their viability and help to extend still further their un-hatched life span! Sea-Monkeys are real Time-Travelers asleep in biological time capsules for their strange journey into the future!
The joy of watching Sea-Monkeys grow offers a lot more than just pure fun. It is one of the outstanding educational experiences of a lifetime, because the entire life-cycle of these unique creatures are fully recreated. Conceived in 1960 as a biological novelty, the “fantasy” has transformed into brilliant reality.
Sea-Monkeys® are a unique species of brine shrimp, known by the scientific name of Artemia NYOS. We not only unlocked the most elusive secrets of their life cycle, we created new formulas to keep them alive under conditions found in the average home—an accomplishment never before achieved! Finally, after years of crossbreeding, we developed a hybrid. These amazing new hybrids grow larger and live longer than any "natural" variety of brine shrimp. Resulting from the most exquisitely sophisticated “aquaculture technology”, by true pioneers in this science, only the utmost resources of a leading marine biological research center working for a span of many years has made this project a complete success.
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Answer 2

Sea-Monkey is a brand name of a hybrid of Artemia salina, a species of brine shrimp. These are a type of fairy shrimp—not true shrimp, but a branchiopod. The term Sea-Monkeys (sometimes unhyphenated) is a trademark used to sell them as a novelty gift. They originate in salt lakes and salt evaporation flats.

Sea-Monkeys can reproduce both sexually (requiring a male and a female) and asexually. When the eggs are laid, there are fewer males than females per "litter". This is probably because they are not needed for reproduction. Females stop reproducing with the males when the males are too few.

Sea-Monkeys have been cited in studies of DNA and sexual behavior, primarily because they are commonly available specimens.

Answer 3

Sea Horse there definately is.

Sea Monkey? Thats you in the Sea.

Answer 4

A "sea monkey" as its so called is actually an organism called "brine shrimp." It's a multicelled organism that lives in sea water and it's sort of shaped like a floating worm with multi-legs. It is often used as a food source for fishes (tetras, goldfish, omnivore marine fishes) and it provides great protein. It can be raised by fish owners so that they can feed a live food to their fishes. It can be harvested even at its immediate hatching to use as food for baby fish.

Answer 5

Hasn't this woman ever seen the picture on the box.... the sea monkeys are wearing crowns and eating Sunday dinner. Clearly she got a bad batch (as did I as a child). Even if every person who ever had sea monkeys got a bad batch that does not negate the pictures accuracy. Regardless one must have faith in the picture on the box and just see all our empirical evidence as patently false. Sea men exist! Viva Sea Men!

Answer 6

Sea monkeys are just brine shrimp.

Answer 7

sea monkeys are actually Brine Shrimp.

Answer 8

Brine shrimp sold in toy stores

On the box they look like huge characters that will be lots of fun to watch and play with, but actually they are about 1/4 inch long and white and don't do much but swim around.

They have very false advertising.

Answer 9

Brine Shrimp and a rip off

Answer 10

Brine Shrimp. Similar thing to "krill" I believe.