The tardigrade is walking over the stick and tries hardly to tear away from it. Moss piglet is moving it's paws clambering the growth with it's claws. Theme of the microcosmos and it's inhabitants.

micro madi on Instagram: "I didn’t need a microscope to see this tardigrade!! I took this video on my iPhone, and what you’re looking at is an absolutely massive echiniscidae tardigrade just moving around in real time. I had quite a few macroscopic tardigrades in this sample!! Tardigrades are usually microscopic, but this one was unusually large for an echiniscidae. It was living in moss and lichen on a rock, which is a layered micro-ecosystem built on stone. Moss and lichen hold moisture, trap