This is Jake the Water Bear, and this clip is one of my all-time favorites! . Jake is a tardigrade, or more commonly known as a water bear. They are the cutest microscopic animals ever; they have eight chubby legs and two pitch-black eyes. Look at him! . Jake's kind lives in almost every habitat, and they eat moss, algae, and some other small organisms. Can you see the shining arrowhead kinda structure in his head? That's the piercing stylets, they connect in the mouth, and Jake moves them by us