Of all the weird, tiny organisms out there, tardigrades might just be the cutest.
“Under a microscope, what you would see is this little critter that kind of looks like either an eight-legged Gummi bear, or an eight-legged manatee,” says Thomas Boothby, a molecular biologist at the University of Wyoming.
To top it off, these lovable micro-animals are known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets.