A new theory suggests that Hardy Tardigrades evolved from ancient worms
A reconstruction of a tardigrade from Cambrian deposits in Siberia. Tardigrades. Water bears. Moss piglets. Whatever their name, the microscopic invertebrates are notoriously hardy, and now a team of researchers has studied the ancestors of tardigrades to understand how the animal evolved. The research team studied lobopodians, a group of extinct soft-bodied worms from the … Read more