Oh, hey, it's the sunglasses that you sat on, but you still wear crooked,

Ali Ward, with a really big episode on a little creature, let's get into it.

With a warning that this episode is an instant classic, I'm warning you,

you're going to listen to it more than once once because it's so good and it's perfect.

Prepare. So what is the Tartagrade? You're about to find out more about these water-bearer,

moss piglet tiny creatures with extreme survival abilities via the loving eyes of an expert

Tartagradologist who also identifies as a bio-feelist, simply loves nature,

loves critters, and is up to their eyes in wonder.

Their bio literally says,

to me every life form,

no matter how gruesome,

think tapeworms, flukes,

and the corpse flower of Borneo is beautiful and awe inspiring.

Oh you're gonna love them. So they got their bachelor's in zoology in

southern Illinois, a master's in zoology at the University of the West Indies

and a biology PhD at UC Santa Cruz.

They are currently a professor at Warren Wilson College.

They have discovered many new species of Tartagrade and is one of the foremost tardigridologists on earth.

Just PS, tardagradology, it's very much a field, it's an actual term, and you should know that

tardigrade means slow stepper, just a tardigrader. They're tiny, they are rotund, and they

saunter in no hurry. We're going to get to them swiftly, but first a heads up to back

to schoolers.

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