Also known as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are waddling eight-legged animals with a reputation for survival.
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"I believe this tardigrade simply encountered the nematode, and it was something it could grasp which is better than flailing around helplessly."
He ended up with a nematode and a batch of tardigrade eggs, visible through his microscope.
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Winthrop , Massachusetts