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Banner text: Danish schoolchildren discover NINE new species of tardigrade, nearly quadrupling the number of known species of the extremophile. Picture of a tardigrade under a microscope. Graphic of Dr. Tardy wearing a blue SETI Institute t-shirt and saying "Congrats" in a speech bubble. SETI Institute logo.

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Banner text: Danish schoolchildren discover NINE new species of tardigrade, nearly quadrupling the number of known species of the extremophile. Picture of a tardigrade under a microscope. Graphic of Dr. Tardy wearing a blue SETI Institute t-shirt and saying "Congrats" in a speech bubble. SETI Institute logo.
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SETI Institute (setiinstitute@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 09:50:57 JST SETI Institute

Do you love tardigrades? We love tardigrades! And thanks to nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren and a citizen science project, we now have NINE new species of tardigrade to love. Congratulations!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-new-tardigrade-species-discovered-thanks-to-the-efforts-of-danish-schoolchildren-180986010/
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