The book "Ten Million Aliens" is a book about the complexities of the animal kingdom and Mr Barnes does a great job describing the weirdness that comes with the animal kingdom. This book has hundreds of short chapters on the unusual f the animal kingdom and my only complaint is that it is organized pretty messy as zooming through the chapter index you really cant tell what animal he is to write about until you flip to that part.
I also wish he had focused on fewer animals and wrote longer pieces on the most important members of the animal kingdoms. The chapter on the water bears was way to short and clearly Simon Barnes could give more information to the reader on these lovable little creatures. They are so cute I wish I could collect and raise a thousand of them in my petri dish and watch them procreate and expand. these amazing little beasts are in every environment and can only be seen with the mightiest microscopes buy still nonetheless an amazing animal. The Tardigrade can survive anything and will never die on you and I imagine would make the perfect pet. 
They don't take up a lot of space nor do they make much noise and their adaptability and brilliant survival methods makes them likely a pet easy to take care. Eventually evolution will bring about a larger Tarigrade species or perhaps man could breed these things quickly for the thriving pet market. Like the cockroach they can survive a nuclear blast as they can withstand a thousand times more radiation than the average animal or human. Simon Barnes goes through many exotic and rare things from large mammals to the smallest tape worms and writes what makes these living organisms so unusual compared to all the other ones
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