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A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone.
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 ' .
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Aerobius is a genus of extinct tardigrades ("water bears") of the superfamily Hypsibioidea. The genus contains a single species , A. dactylus , known from a single individual preserved in amber . The Aerobius holotype is preserved in the same piece of Late Cretaceous amber as Beorn , another extinct tardigrade.
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 ]
Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2021! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds.
The bears were particularly interested in the chair and water bowl outside the home, the video shows, and Palmer-Cobb said her family put those out for the stray cat, who they’ve named Blue.
Tardigrades (/ ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ ɡ r eɪ d z / ⓘ), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, 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 ' .