This little tardigrade is “waking up” from dormancy. 🥹 . I often collect soil and leaf litter from forests to find interesting microbes, and there are always a few tardigrades in those samples. Larger animals like snails, my chubby cats, and us humans have evolved to retain the water within our bodies. But for microscopic animals like tardigrades, it’s a different story, they need water to move, eat, and reproduce. . In habitats where water is temporary, tardigrades evolved to survive desiccati