What if we went out and grabbed some tardigrades and popped the little, squirming bodies under a microscope ... Today's best Omano Monocular Compound Microscope deals What a cutie!

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.

Savard takes samples from seemingly mundane stuff (water from a local pond, a blueberry, sand) and places it under her microscope ... It’s called a tardigrade (AKA a water bear) and Savard ...

the team placed glycerin on each side for the field of view of a confocal fluorescence microscope. A series of photographic “slices” of the tardigrades were then blended together to create ...

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.

the anisole reacted by forming a biocompatible chemical compound that stuck to the tiny critter's side. Slowly bringing the tardigrade back to room temperature under a vacuum allowed the unreacted ...

Called water bears or moss piglets because of their appearance under a microscope, tardigrades are the smallest-known animals with legs. They have a pudgy body—no larger than a pencil point—their ...

Microscopic tardigrades—plump, eight-legged arthropod relatives—are nearly indestructible, and their durability superpower may have helped them weather the deadliest mass extinction in Earth ...