A tiny microbe inspired this scientist's big dreams.

The article presents an interview with an evolutionary biologist, Marc Mapalo, who is working on a PhD at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It highlights that Mapalo is looking at tardigrade fossils to better understand how their tiny bodies have changed over time. Topics include how rejections can lead to greater opportunities; and being able to publish his first paper on a land-dwelling tardigrade in the Philippines that he had discovered.