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I have a culture of roughly 300 tardigrades, or water bears. I an keeping them in spring water and regularly feeding them with chlorella algae. I wanted to play around with polarized light to really highlight the stylets of the water bear. The glowing structures in the water bear in the shape of a “V” are thr stylets the animal uses to pierce food to eat. The first clip shows the tardigrade on the left try to bite the one on the right. Polarization microscopy allows us to clearly see the structu

I found this water bear after rehydrating some small pieces of moss I picked from my patio. After hydrating the moss in rain water for 1-2 days, these little animals became active. This tardigrade is observed crawling on my coverslip! #microscope #microscopy #microtok #biology #microbiology #nature #science #microcosmos #microorganisms #tardigrade #waterbear #animals #education #fyp #bayarea #sanfrancisco