Run Wild And Free

The latest book in our Curioddities series is coming out soon. Here’s a preview of the book, Simply Shocking.

An energetic crustacean was given a workout by scientists at a laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, as part of an experiment. They discovered that the shrimp could run on an underwater treadmill nonstop for three hours.

Putting shrimp on a treadmill may seem pretty silly, but shrimp are a multi-million dollar industry. In the Gulf of Mexico alone, shrimp fishing is worth more than $300 million!

These delicious cockroaches of the sea may be popular, but there is still plenty we don’t know about their health. Since a sick shrimp is a dead shrimp, these scientists decided to find out what makes a sick shrimp.

Even something as lowly as the shrimp isn’t without controversy. Last year, US Senator Tom Coburn attacked the shrimp scientists.

This page comes right out of Simply Shocking, available March 13!

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