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🦠 Meet the gastrotrich; a tiny, fast-living “hairy-bellied worm” commonly found in healthy soils and aquatic environments. There are about 790 known species, and although they may look simple under the microscope, they play an important role in the Soil Food Web. Take a look at how it looks under the electron microscope in the second picture.🔬 Gastrotrichs live life in the fast lane: their entire lifespan is about 10 days, quite short. Their eggs hatch in 1–4 days, and the juveniles already lo