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! www.hurryuppleaseitstime.com