{"id":901,"date":"2013-08-16T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T04:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/godzilla-triops\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:37:05","slug":"godzilla-triops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/godzilla-triops\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla Triops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/triops125.jpg\" alt=\"Godzilla Triops\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/triops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Available as growing kits<\/a> in pet and toy stores, triops are one of the oldest species of crustacean in the world, having been around for over 200 million years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Like Sea Monkeys, their eggs can remain under suspended animation for years, until the right conditions cause them to hatch into live, ancient marvels.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference between Triassic triops and the ones of today are their size. They now only grow up to ~1.5&#8243; in length. However, exposing them to ionizing RF radiation and radioactive Potassium-40 unlocks their Triassic growth genes, creating these &#8216;Godzilla Triops&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Godzilla Triops (How to grow giant, radioactive triops)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWxHOwjJzCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available as growing kits in pet and toy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,124,125],"tags":[98,191,190,189,75],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","category-creative-exploration","category-tutorials","tag-animals","tag-radioactive","tag-sea-monkeys","tag-triops","tag-video"],"featured_image_src":"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/triops125.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/triops125.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Adnan Saleem","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/author\/dc\/"},"rbea_author_info":{"display_name":"Adnan Saleem","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/author\/dc\/"},"rbea_excerpt_info":"Available as growing kits in pet and toy&hellip;","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/category\/originals\/video\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Animation &amp; Video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/category\/originals\/video\/creative-exploration\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific and Creative Exploration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/category\/originals\/video\/tutorials\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Tutorials<\/a>","comments_num":"40 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}