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When James, our master of microscopes, was looking through samples he’d received from Spain, he didn’t expect to see this—a creature straight out of a horror movie, with dark reddish brown eyes and tentacles streaming out of its mouth.

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SOURCES:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9191689/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434461022000505#b0050
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00054.x
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/rotifera/rotifera.html

Tiny, squishy, water bears walk just like insects 500,000 times their size

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107289118
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1095643320302439
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/tardigrades
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