These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating

Claim your special offer for MagellanTV here: Start your free trial today so you can watch Life On Us: A Microscopic Safari about exploring the creatures that live, compete, feed, on breed on the surface or in the depths of our body, and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: The ciliates were going to talk about today are kind offrustrating. At this point in our journey, weve gotten used to the fact that the microcosmos is an indecipherable mess at times, filled with organisms that look like each other, and who have familial relationships that seem obvious but then turn out to be a figment of our own limited imaginations. And these ciliates are yet another entry in the longstanding saga of everchanging taxonomies that define our understanding of microbial species. The plot twist is inevitable. Thank you Maria for sending us these amazing tardigrades