Quest for a Tardigrade

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I love tardigrades. Every time I read about them, I am more amazed. I just read that they don’t have respiratory organs, they just breathe through their skin.

Image of actual tardigrade They mate when they shed their skin and the eggs come off with the skin and the male then fertilizes them in the skin. They also lose their teeth when they molt and they secrete new ones.

They have been found in ice, in hot springs in the Himalayas, at the bottom of the ocean, on barnacles and many other places but mostly in moss.

We have lots of moss in Seattle! So that is my quest. I was given a microscope, inherited it I guess.

Look at all these mossy places. Which one holds a tardigrade? Wish me luck!

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