[Taxacom] Space hopping tardigrades...

[Karen Wilson]

This is possibly because of the publicity about tardigrades surviving being sent into space, Tony. 
See, for example, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-does-the-tiny-waterbear-survive-in-outer-space-30891298/  where it says an amateur enthusiast has postulated that they might have evolved somewhere other than on Earth - a view that has been discounted by others knowledgeable in the field. 
An article in Popular Science discussed this further - https://www.popsci.com/tardigrades-on-the-moon-alive/

Cheers
Karen W

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Subject: [Taxacom] Space hopping tardigrades...

Dear Taxacomers,

Just spotted this, in an otherwise generally good popular science magazine here, spruiking "AQUILA Children’s Magazine - the ultimate intelligent read for inquisitive kids"

From the Aquila website (https://www.aquila.co.uk/) :
"Meet the humble tardigrade, an 8-legged micro-animal that may have arrived on our planet by meteorite 520 million years ago!"

WTF??? Do they know something other people don't?

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees
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