Eeeeeeee!!! :D

[Alex K]

* Evie looks for tardigrades

* Evie fails

Easiest place to find them is under mossy bark on trees where there's a fair amount of moisture. All you need is a cheap microscope (100-200x magnification should be plenty) and some patience to look through the detritus to find them.

They're really fascinating. My Invertebrate Zoology professor was doing a research paper on them when I took the class, and we collected millions of 'em in really fun field ops, then cataloged them for his research data, during the labs for that class.

For my vid upthread, we opened the attic window, took literally the first dime sized piece of moss we found from a roof tile and put it in a bit of water. I think there were like 10 in there. The thought that they are this ridiculously ubiquitous is almost unsettling.