Water Bear Movie 5

[jennyinwaiting]

aww, poor tardigrade!

This is the kinda thing that gets us nerds all emotional!

[X6VampireLust9X]

poor lil water bear ;~;

[EquineBallet]

me too! I love water bears...

[btkw]

omg poor little thing i feel sad for some reason

[th3planetsghost]

because mammals evolved from these organisms, thats why you feel sad.

[EquineBallet]

Those look like the tardigrade eggs!

[eyeswidewild]

Your right that tardigrades leave their eggs in shed skins but tardigrade eggs don't swim about like this. Thanks for your interest!

[thiswhore]

That's pretty mean.  Honestly.

[sevenupyours23]

how the fuck is this mean its an educational video its not like he infected the water bear himself this helped me in my class

[thiswhore]

Your reply is even meaner. =(

[sevenupyours23]

are you just like a whining oversensitive bitch or what

[thiswhore]

Well, judging by your lack of punctuation, lack of sentence structure, and immediate resort to profanity, I'd say that you probably fit that description more than I do.

[edstella]

Poor little guy. :( Pretty nasty when you don't think about it on a small scale and apply it to something... human, let's say.

[snowwolfsabertooth]

erg!

[LogicalOctopus]

After seeing an image on bio-pro denmark site with the caption "Tardigrades lose their skin as they grow. The eggs are deposited in the old skin where they develop into mature animals," it makes you think. Are these eggs that are about to hatch?

[eyeswidewild]

A good thought and you are right that many tardigrade species lay their eggs in cast skins. However, tardigrade eggs are non-motile, i.e. they do not swim about in the cast skin as in the movie. Also their shape is less plastic: they are and remain spherical until they hatch. So these are definitely not eggs.

[redeyes200]

poor water bear :(

[Stolichnaya9]

this is warrrrrrrrrr!!!

[deaneden79]

That's one tardigrade that won't be coming back to life. Thanks for posting these videos. I think tardigrades are completely fascinating. Thanks again!

[HurtingYourFeelings]

Good GOD that thing is dead!

[johnnydog12]

they come back in 125 years