Hello, friends. As you may have noticed, there wasn't a new episode this week, and you can

probably tell why from the sound of my voice. Christian and I were both very sick this week,

but not to worry, we are already on the mend and feeling better already, but I did want to put

something up just to keep the feed warm for y'all this week, so I dug into our backlog for

buried treasure. I'm resurfacing an old

episode from way back in 2019, episode 24, reviewing a couple of funky little guys who take us on a

journey through time and space, the tardigrade and platypus. Enjoy. This is Ellen Weatherford.

And this is just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take This is Ellen Weatherford. And Christian Weatherford.

And this is just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast where we take your favorite species of animals.

And we review them and rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts.

We do a lot of research and we try our best to make sure we're presenting information from trustworthy sources.

This is a no fake news zone.

I'm gonna source Lord of the Rings.

Dragonology from Ernest Drake.

So Christian, last week I went first, so that means it's your turn.

What I bring to us this week, the whole internet asked for it. We're bringing it. That is, of course, the tardy grade. Finally. Yes. This was submitted to us by Bo Gant, as well as the nagging naturalist. Thank you both. Thank you, thank you. Excellent taste in friends. I'll be pulling my information from live science.com and also one other source that I will quote as I'm using it because it kind of gives something away.

So kind of diving right in, you'll notice I did not say a scientific name.

That's right.

What's that about?

So the first thing I'm talking about, also the first thing I learned.

Tartigrade actually describes any micro animal belonging to the Tartigratia thylum.

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