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You can find micro-animals just about everywhere. They\\u2019re on your face and in your hair. They\\u2019re in puddles and in soil. One of the most famous of these microscopic creatures is the tardigrade.

This episode zooms in on these adorable little animals, also known as moss piglets and water bears. The biggest tardigrade is about the size of the tip of a sharpened pencil, but most are smaller. More like the width of a hair. They\\u2019re kinda like a squishy pillow with eight legs, four on each side, with finger-like little claws at the end of each leg. And a round, snout-like opening on its face.

Jasmine Nirody tells us what she\\u2019s learned about these cuties through her research. She\\u2019s watched hundreds of hours of tardigrade videos. Way better than YouTube, right? We\\u2019ll also hear about where you can find tardigrades, how they live and why we\\u2019ve sent them to space.

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