My vote for greatest animal ever is still on humans.
Can tardigrade play a guitar? Paint a self-portrait? Build a house? Design a car?
Can a tardigrade love?
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But seriously, these things are truly awesome. I've never heard of them, and they look really cool!
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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