tardigrade

After drawing this comic, I discovered the blog of Dr. Gareth Lawson and his merry band of researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who travel the ocean blue in a research vessel named R/V New Horizon in search of charismatic microfauna, including lovely and enchanting pteropods (if not the cute and cuddly tardigrade). Read about oceanographic research as it happens at Charismatic Microfauna!

transcript:

tardigrade:
Introducing a new approach for environmental appeals: Charismatic Microfauna!
Save the tardigrade! It survived the last five great extinctions…Help it survive this one!
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