What are the three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ resurfacing after Burning Man?

 Who would have thought a small, yet peculiar creature could stir up such a scene in the Nevada Desert?

After heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary turned a dry desert into a mud pit, revellers at the Burning Man Festival were left trapped on site.

Footage on social media showed thousands of festivalgoers in the Black Rock Desert in damp, wet and muddy conditions.

And now, slowly marking its territory and sparking much discourse is a group of strange organisms knwon as the three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp”.

But should we be worried about these critters wriggling their way out in such a muddy scene?...more