Wet weather helps one of world’s oldest living animal species return to Scotland

Wet weather helps one of world’s oldest living animal species return to Scotland

The tadpole shrimp has been returned to RSPB Scotland's Mersehead Reserve in Dumfries and Galloway after more than 75 years.

Just add water: heavy rainfall revives ancient species on the Scottish Solway Coast

Recent wet weather has hatched a new population of the rare and ancient Tadpole Shrimp – one of the world’s oldest living animal species – at RSPB Scotland Mersehead in Dumfries, only the third population of the species in the UK. In recent decades, the Tadpole Shrimp had been reduced to only two locations in the UK: the New Forest in Hampshire and the Wildlife and Wetland Trust (WWT) site at Caerlaverock on the Scottish Solway Coast. The specie…