Squirmer

A squirmer is a type of microscopic organism that looks like a tiny, squiggly worm. It lives in liquids like water, and moves around by wiggling and squirming its body.

Imagine if you had a long, skinny tube that you could bend and twist in different directions. If you wiggled the tube in one direction, it would move you forward a little bit. If you wiggled it in another direction, it would turn you around. That's kind of like how a squirmer moves around! It has a long, squiggly body that it can bend and twist in different ways to move through liquid.

Squirmers are important because they can help scientists learn more about how tiny organisms move and interact with their environment. They might even be used someday to clean up pollution, or to deliver medicine to specific parts of the body. But for now, we can just marvel at their squiggly, wiggly movements!