A new species of tardigrade lays eggs covered with doodads and streamers
The newest of these tough little water bears was plucked from a parking lot in Japan
![tardigrade egg](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/022718_SM_tardigrade_feat_2_REV.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
ELEGANT EGG The elaborate surface (right) of a microscopic tardigrade egg (left) was one of the clues that it came from a new species of water bear.
D. Stec, K. Arakawa and Ł. Michalczyk/PLOS One 2018