Hello, WeatherFriends.

Hello, WeatherFriends. 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 going to

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

and 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 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, Tardigrade grade actually describes any micro animal belonging to

the Tartigratia thylum. Oh, that's a lot of... Yes. That's a very high level of classification.

Yes, it is. That's one level below the kingdom of animalia. So it consists of over 1,100 species.

Oh, geez. So I didn't even try to pick one.

Okay.

Broadstrokes, folks.

So they are microscopic.

I think a lot of people have heard or seen a lot about these on the internet in recent years.

They're quite trendy.

Yeah.

So their size can actually range quite a bit relatively.

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