Sea-Monkey advertising steals $8 from children promising them humanoid instant life that are trainable pets. For their $8, they get brine shrimp, a shelled anthropoid, that takes weeks to reach adulthood and are not trainable. If this accusation is true, then why have their sales survived decades of legal scrutiny and become a cult classic still enjoyed today. This learning activity provides an invaluable life lesson between beliefs and scientific revelation. Sea-Monkey can be grown by six-year-olds and up. The kit contains everything needed for months of low maintenance animal care. The animals are rugged and have low failure rates. Finally, they can be used as a basis to teach the origin, genetics, and life cycle of this species. The bitter taste of being fooled is more than offset by the sweet taste of success and nutrition of education. In all fairness, the package did give a clue to what Sea-Monkeys are in the round picture, a species scientifically know as Artemia NYOS.