Tardigrade Naked Eye. The wee beasties have endearing features:. These “bears” invisible to the naked eye are one of the most extraordinary animals on earth.
They are also known as moss piglets. However, they are difficult to detect: These “bears” invisible to the naked eye are one of the most extraordinary animals on earth.
How to catch tardigrades, with biologist Mark Blaxter WIRED UK
Members of the phylum tardigrada are small aquatic animals known commonly as “water bears” because of their superficial resemblance to tiny ursid mammals. Don’t look too hard — it’s incredibly difficult to spot with a naked eye. “to give you an idea, it’s about the thickness of five human hairs or the tip of a pencil, barely. When they are born, they are very tiny at 50 micrometers in length, but they can grow up to 1,500 micrometers and average about 500.
