Here's the real poop on tardigrades | Science News

The tardigrade species newly named Macrobiotus shonaicus (after the Shonai region of Japan where it was discovered) has a talent for growing under lab conditions. That allowed genome biologist and tardigrade fan Kazuharu Arakawa to capture water bear home movies. Here, M. shonaicus trundles along with its almost bearlike gait. In an event rarely shown on film, it excretes waste almost its body size. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-species-tardigrade-lays-eggs-covered-doodads-and-streamers Credit: Kazuharu Arakawa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3MtIJ-zRTRzy1k5yJpJmCw