Tardigrade dance

A Tardigrade (water bear) from MBR WWTP mixed liquor after increased pond return. 100x mag & 400x mag.Music backing, no narration.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tardigrade
• Activated
• Sludge
• MBR
• WWTP
• microscopic
• metazoa
• science
• biology
• wastewater
• treatment
• sewage
• Scope
• Global

[shadowtiger18]

Cutest microscopic thing on Earth

[jensenackles12]

no you are not crazy a,they are cute

[meandmynaps]

@fsots LOL! I love Dory!

[fsots]

"I will call him squishy...and he shall be my little squishy"

[IceMetalPunk]

@TheSpongeTom: And they were. Tardigrades are still around. But the kind of cryptobiosis that allows them to be so damn tough would never work--and, in fact, would probably be very dangerous--for anything of a larger size. It works because they're tiny...plain and simple.

-IMP ;) :)

[itadakimasu2666]

ZOMG SQUISHY

[yofashizzle123]

RAVE PARTY

[TheSpongeTom]

How's that? In many ways, these are more "evolved" than even humans. They're literally "made to survive". You'd think those kinds of traits would be preserved...

[yehoshua2123]

ya they r

[jovezza59]

Where is he going? what does he it?

[VocalLuke]

Beautiful... with things like this you can really see how life evolved.

[AtliAnders]

"Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures close to absolute zero, temperatures as high as 151 °C (303 °F), 1,000 times more radiation than any other animal, nearly a decade without water, and even the vacuum of space." (Wikipedia)