We gathered 454 figures from 96 open-access papers: electron micrographs of claws and eggs, glowing nervous systems and muscles, tuns, embryos, fossils in amber and the mosses tardigrades live in, across 109 named species. Filter by what a figure shows, how it was made and which animal it is. Open any figure for its full caption, credit and licence.
What it showsHow it was made
Credit and licences
Every figure appears as its authors published it, reduced in size for the web, with a link to the full-resolution original. Each comes from an open-access paper in the PMC Open Access dataset, and we checked its licence against the article and PMC's record: 400 CC BY 4.0, 22 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, 12 CC BY 2.0, 9 CC BY-NC-ND, 6 CC BY, 3 Licence not stated, 1 CC BY-NC 4.0, 1 CC BY 3.0. Figures marked NC are non-commercial only; SA means adaptations must share the licence. Figures that reprint panels from other sources keep the caption's own credit, marked in the viewer; papers under no-derivatives licences are shown unmodified; a few papers state no licence and are shown with full credit. We remove any figure on request: see credits. Tags come from each caption and can miss things; the caption itself is the authority. Reuse any figure under its own licence and credit its authors, not us.
How this is built
Data
454 figures from 96 open-access papers, taken from the PMC Open Access dataset as their publishers deposited them, with captions and licences from each article's XML.
Built with
fetch_figures.py finds open-access tardigrade papers through Europe PMC, fetches the figure files and tags each one from its caption: what it shows, how it was made, and which checklist species it names (H. dujardini before 2018 is filed as H. exemplaris). build_gallery.py puts featured figures first, then takes papers in turn so no single paper fills a screen, and makes web-sized copies beside the originals.
Checked
Each paper's licence was read from the article and cross-checked against PMC's own record. The tags are not tested against data.
Limits
Only papers in PMC's open-access set are included. Tags come from keyword matching and can miss or mislabel a figure; the caption is the authority.