From the Flora and Fauna Unit
I keep finding images of these little suckers popping up in Pinterest and Twitter. They're not alien life or mutated lab experiments, these are little shrimp cousins that live in oceans and lakes. One of these is from Lake Baikal, the oldest lake on earth. Creepy and cool, I do take a little comfort knowing they're very small.
To me these look like inspiration for monsters in a future comic I'll be working on.
You can read more about them here: LINK
Or this New Scientist article: LINK
And here's a cool paper on how one of their legs evolved into wings in insects: LINK
-Jake