Of course, that appearance is only visible under a microscope, which aside from revealing the tardigrade's incongruously cute morphology, also reveals a surprisingly delicate appearance.

(Tip: Have them collect some moss from outside and look for actual tardigrades; these water bears will show up nicely under a basic microscope. The kit includes 50 prepared slides, reusable blank ...

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Some larger tardigrades can be visible to the naked eye, but since they're also see-through, we're unlikely to get a good view without at least a low-power microscope. 2. Tardigrades Are Their Own ...

It’s the first tardigrade fossil from the Cenozoic, our current geological era that began 66 million years ago. Beneath a microscope, tiny tardigrades look like water bears. Although they are ...

A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone. His setup cost under $1,000.

And though biologists have known about tardigrades since the dawn of the microscope, they’re only just beginning to understand how these remarkable organisms are able to survive anywhere.

German zoologist J.A.E. Goeze saw tardigrades through a microscope in 1773 and recorded that its body looked like a shriveled and shrunken version of a bear. He named it kleiner Wasserbär ...

Until this imaging, tardigrades were classified using external characteristics, leaving many questions unanswered. To get the best view, the team used a confocal laser scanning microscope, which ...