Tardigrades- we finally discovered 'em!

[hotaugust78]

i have found not to use distilled water, that is if you want them to blow up. you can use tap water and let it sit for 24 hours than soak your bryophytes. I live in the pacific northwest and i have found them in large numbers in, Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus. does any one know of any other moss that contains an abundance of tardigrades in it?

[fumetamax]

:)

[KillerRobotWaterbear]

<3

[Tardigradafan]

This "damn black thing" is a piece of moss. They're living in there! And it's not as if we had not tried to push it away with a needle... ;)

[jddeitz2000]

Get that damn black thing out of the way already

[taylor45ful]

how do you get them

[dbaronbuddybolton]

NICE JOB!

They are so cute!

Where did you find this one?

On Moss?

[KillerRobotWaterbear]

@dbaronbuddybolton

You can find them with these steps:

1. Get some moss and soak it in well water or rainwater

2. Squeeze The moss on top of a small dish water will come out

3. put the dish under your microscope with atleast 100x maginfication and look around you might find a tardigrade!

[edstella]

Great video! :)  It's adorable and at about 3:25, it's like, "Augh! Stuck!"

[BabetteBabich]

ist nett, soll aber in ruehe gelassen sein --- nicht wahr?

[ibloxProductionz]

Its nice you can get the toughest animal in your back garden ;P

[dotonic]

kaum zu glauben, ich sitz hier vor und guck das video und bekomm ein riesen grinsen! klasse!

[Hacker9876543210]

cool

[manjacaprini]

That's and heterotardigrade (perhaps and Echiniscus sp.)

[Moshpitssser]

That was real cool :)