If you could interview a tardigrade, what would you like to know?
ed: You are fantastic! 
Thanks to all for these inspiring great questions.
I'll ask the tardigrade, of course! I'm still waiting for the confirmation from my chubby interview partner. We'll talk also about their sex life, so the episode could be prohibited in a big country for too much diversity and #biodiversity. 
Mapping #Antarctica's hidden ice-free lands: A blueprint for conservation https://phys.org/news/2025-01-antarctica-hidden-ice-free-blueprint.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04424-y
"The ice-free lands are home to uniquely adapted flora including micro-forests of #lichens, #moss, and two flowering plants, Antarctic hairgrass and pearlwort. They also sustain a variety of #mites, #springtails, #tardigrades, #nematodes, #algae, and #microbes. #Seabirds have established breeding colonies in these areas too."
To put you in your place in the universe, this morning. I bring you the tardigrade.
Microplastics Seem to Be in Every Kind of Animal… Except One #plastic #microplastics #pollution #nature #wastewater #tardigrades #waterbear https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-seem-to-be-in-every-kind-of-animal-except-one
#tardigrades are always news…
Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades | Communications Biology
252 million years ago, #tardigrades may have escaped extinction using one weird trick
Tardies are bonkers 
Also, this is the first time I've heard Real Science host Stephanie Sammann drop some bombs - it suits her 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lZpF0oatYA #science #RealScience #tardigrades #biology
500-million-year-old alien-like sea creature discovered in Canada. It’s a NewSpecies https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article289548232.html
Deep origin of articulation strategies in #panarthropods https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2356090
"The #lobopodian, part of a group of #animals known for their long bodies and short, stubby legs (e.g. #VelvetWorms, #tardigrades), appeared to have spikes protruding from the body, in addition to legs on the back half of the body while feather-like appendages grew from the front"
Tardigrades (water bears) are also called “moss piglets” by some. Cool. I guess I can see that 
Also, my son just told me that they are in the clade “panarthropoda, which includes arthropods, tardigrades, and velvet worms,”and their little mouths are called “stylets.”
I learn something new every day. 
