You're Right! From the Official Sea-Monkey® Handbook: Sea-Monkeys® are a variety of Artemia which are crustaceans such as Brine Shrimp or Seed Shrimps. Their correct latin name is Artemia nyos ("after the New York Ocean Science Laboratories where the hybrid Sea-Monkeys were developed.") " and exist in its natural habitat in the "Great Salt Lake" in Utah, because only Artemia can survive in those levels of salt concentration. The name scientists have given the amazing rare process of the 'dryed-out', unborn eggs found in the kits, is "cryptobiosis" which means "hidden life". They actually exist in 'suspended animation'. Sea-Monkeys® are real time-travellers, asleep in biological time-capsules.