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Astrobiology (ALIENS) with Kevin Peter Hand

Ologies with Alie Ward

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What's the Deal With Tardigrades?

A Tardigrade, by the way, is this teeny tiny micro animal. It looks kind of like if a futon cushion had eight stumpy little legs and then a vacuum for a face. They've been everywhere from the Antarctic to the deep sea to volcanoes. If you soak a piece of moss in water and then you look under like a low power microscope, you might be able to spot one. But yeah, Kevin says, sorry, y'all, they're earthlings.

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