Tardigrades are microscopic, resilient organisms that might just outlive the Sun—and their known world just got a little bigger.
Kazuharu Arakawa, a researcher at Tokyo's Keio University, picked up a tardigrade specimen when he was gathering samples from the parking lot of his apartment building in Tsuruoka-City, Japan. He plucked a clump of moss protruding from the concrete and took it back to the lab for testing. After finding the micro-animal and analyzing its DNA, Arakawa and his Polish colleagues reproduced the tiny tardigrade. What sets this new species—named Macrobiotus shonaicus—apart from others is its chunky legs and bumpy eggs.=read more
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