Jam's Germs on Instagram: "Here is a nuclear family of tardigrades for you! 😂 A baby, a male, and a female with more than twenty eggs ready to hatch. . Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are microscopic animals with eight chubby legs, eyes, muscles, a simple brain and more. There are over fifteen hundred species described in the literature and many more waiting to be discovered and named. . All these individuals belong to one species of the genus Thulinius, just different developmental sta