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  2. Tardigrade - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades (/ ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ ɡ r eɪ d z / ⓘ), [1] known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, [2] are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ' little water bear ' .

  3. Milnesium tardigradum - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades have been shown to respond to different temperature changes at different developmental stages. Specifically, the younger the egg, the less likely it is to survive extreme environments. However, not too long after development, tardigrades demonstrate a remarkable ability to withstand these conditions.

  4. Environmental tolerance in tardigrades - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades can withstand 1,000 times more radiation than other animals, [17] median lethal doses of 5,000 Gy (of gamma rays) and 6,200 Gy (of heavy ions) in hydrated animals (5 to 10 Gy could be fatal to a human). [18] Earlier experiments attributed this to their lowered water content, providing fewer reactants for ionizing radiation. [18]

  5. How Cryptobiosis Makes Tardigrades Almost Indestructible - AOL

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    Tardigrades are one such creature, as you discover in the above video. They can endure boiling water, freezing cold, How Cryptobiosis Makes Tardigrades Almost Indestructible

  6. Scientists Put Tardigrade DNA Into Human Stem Cells ... - AOL

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    Chinese military scientists believe the tardigrade’s cells improve a human's ability to withstand radiation and potentially other diseases.

  7. Acutuncus - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades, which are eight-legged micro-animals, are commonly referred to as water bears or moss piglets and are found all over the world in varying extreme habitats. First discovered in 1904 and originally named Hypsibius antarcticus, Acutuncus antarcticus is the most abundant tardigrade species in Antarctica. [1]

  8. Award-winning footage shows a baby tardigrade riding one of ...

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    McInnes said the animal in this video appears to be a species of Diphascon tardigrade, which are about 0.35 millimeters long on average. There's a practical reason it might have hopped on the ...

  9. Ramazzottius - Wikipedia

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    Ramazzottius is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada, named after the Italian zoologist Giuseppe Ramazzotti.. Ramazzottius varieornatus (see image) is a terrestrial invertebrate that is extroardinarily tolerant of extreme conditions such as irradiation, chemicals, dehydration and high pressure. [2]