Chris Moss

If you want to name an animal, go find a tardigrade

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Chris moss

"I'm doing undergraduate research with tardigradia. My speciality is dissecting their only bone and doing Scanning Electron Microscopy of it. On this one piece of lichen, I found 100 tardigrades. My goal is to identify as many as I can down to the species level. It's not easy. I'll probably get about 40, but the thing is that there is no definitive guide on tardigrades. It's one of those things... If you want to name an animal, go find a tardigrade."