Episode

TARDIGRADES with Paul Bartels

Podcast: Smologies with Alie Ward
Published: Jan 29, 2026
Duration seconds: 1612
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Summary

Smaller than you can imagine. Potato-shaped. Mysterious. Misunderstood. And tough enough to survive the vacuum of space or decades of desiccation. Join professor and Tardigradologist Dr. Paul Bartels to saunter into a microscopic wonderland of bizarrely long naps, glow-in-the-dark moss piglets, cryptobiosis, kitten claws, balloon butts, and the friends living in your gutters.