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Back when my children were in middle school, I had a lot of fun helping them with their science projects. My enjoyment of looking through the microscope led to a personal passion to make a contribution to science.
Writing in science project notebook
One of my daughters writing in her science project notebook
Thus began my own scientific study: a population survey of the little known creature (at the time), the tardigrade.
It all started when I hosted a video for Vice Media which went viral and thus popularized the tardigrade as the “The First Animal to Survive in Space.”

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I became known as Mike Shaw, The Space Bear Hunter. With 10 million views, the “tardigrade” became the Number 1 search word on Google.


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The New York Times featured tardigrades in their Science Section when the American Museum of Natural History opened their tardigrade exhibit. Read my interview here.


Tardigrade models at the entrance of the 2015  Life at the Limits exhibition at the American Museum of Natural history Photo ©AMNH/R.Mickens


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Tardigrade, Milnesium Species
Tardigrade, Milnesium Species, from my population survey, covering the state of New Jersey. Survey and publication of a scientific paper took about 10 years from start to finish.

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Known as “The Space Bear Hunter,” Mike Shaw popularized tardigrades by hosting the YouTube video “First Animal to Survive in Space.” He also hosted the PBS video “Songs For Unusual Creatures,” and has appeared on national television in Brazil discussing the tardigrade’s ability to survive extreme conditions.

Mr. Shaw has authored several books and a scientific paper increasing our knowledge about this unusual microscopic species. Most recently, Mr. Shaw was featured in a science article in the New York Times to tie in with the tardigrade exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.




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This is the 2019 USA winning photo of the Olympus Image of the Year Award. Tardigrade in fluorescent imaging.
This is the 2019 USA winning photo of the Olympus Image of the Year Award

The winning image was taken by Tagide deCarvalho (U.S.A.). The beautiful fluorescence image above shows the inside of a tardigrade with colorful details.


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