Tardigrades can be found in houses.
The Mediatized Houses ( Standesherren ) were ruling princely and comital-ranked houses which were mediatized in the Holy Roman Empire during the period of 1806 -- 15 as part of the German Mediatization , and were later recognised in 1825-29 by the German ruling houses as possessing considerable rights and rank . Tardigrade . They have been found everywhere from mountaintops to the deep sea , mud volcanoes , and from tropical rain forests to the Antarctic .