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These Gummy Bear-looking things will inherit the earth
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-gummy-bear-looking-inherit-earth.html
Under the microscope, they're cute. They look like gummy bears with four pairs of legs, and they bumble around among the algae clumps.
In your backyard, tardigrades are similarly bumbling around, eating, procreating, crawling out the mouth holes of their egg-filled exoskeletons–you know, the basics–in the moist films on leaves, lichens, mosses, and other vegetation.