Tardigrates can hitch a ride on snails

 

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Joel Kontinen

Sientist have tested whether tardigrades can travel on snails for a little while, on anails,Tthe authors Milena Roszkowska and Zofia Książkiewicz at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland decides to investigate.

They found out that the tardigrades hitched a ride on the snails.

Tardigrates are of living fossils. They were first reported in the Cambrian  strata “530 million years” ago, which means that evolutionists see them as one of the oldest kinds of living fossils.

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 Wilkins, Alex, 2022,  Tardigrades can hitch-hike on snails to travel longer distances New Scientist 14 April