A retired Kodak finance worker picked moss from a New York log and found an animal no one had seen before; a year later, scientists confirmed it as a new tardigrade species

• Judy Dobles collected moss near Cumming Nature Center that led to the discovery of a new tardigrade species.
• A longtime volunteer and citizen scientist, Dobles collected a sample of moss growing on a log and later examined it under a microscope.
• According to Finger Lakes Public Radio, Dobles had walked the trail hundreds of times, bu