It's called a "tardigrade" or "water bear". It's just one of many aquatic invertebrates on the planet, but it's unlike any other life form that scientists know of. Less than a millimeter in size ...

We know that the tiny tardigrade is one of the toughest creatures on the planet, and a newly discovered species of these ...

Tardigrades may be the world's cutest and most famous microscopic critters. Also known as water bears or moss piglets, ...

Now, an international team of scientists has compared detailed genome assemblies of two tardigrade species. While their analysis, published today (July 27) in PLOS Biology, sheds light on water bears’ ...

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the humble tardigrades are probably our best bet for maintaining life on earth... and perhaps even exporting it to other planets. And since Southpark Season 21, Episode 8 is obviously a documentary, ...

The name Tardigrade means “slow moving” and refers to their bear-like crawling movement. Their movement and appearance has also given rise to the name “water bear”. Tardigrades are not ...

These squishy water bears use a strategy called cryptobiosis to survive everything ... With this defense mechanism, tardigrades are one of the only species able to live in the most inhospitable ...

Dating back to the Cambian era, 530 million years ago, tardigrades are aquatic eight-legged micro-animals of less than a millimetre in length, typically 500 microns. They have most of the organs ...

Researchers recount tardigrades - our report in category News in DiveInside - the fresh online magazine of Taucher.Net ...