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Scientists Captured Footage of Tardigrades Walking Around And It's Adorable
Tardigrades, the smallest animals with legs, weirdly walk like creatures 500,000 times their size.
Even Famously Tough Tardigrades May Struggle to Adapt to Climate Change
High temperatures "seem to be an Achilles heel" for otherwise resilient water bears, a study found.
Please Enjoy These Oil Paintings of Tiny Little 'Water Bears'
Officially known as "tardigrades," these micro-animals are likely to be the last living things on the planet.
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Scientists Identify Gene That Protects Tardigrades From Radiation
They showed it could even work on human cells too...
After 30 Years of Cryosleep, Water Bears Wake Up, Stretch, and Have Babies
Another reason to love tardigrades, the unassuming badasses of animal kingdom.
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A New Analysis Questions How Much Foreign DNA Tardigrades Actually Have
Two research groups sequencing the genome of the same species of ‘water bear’ report different results.
Newly Sequenced Tardigrade Genome Shows They’re Even Weirder Than We Thought
The tardigrade or "water bear" genome has a huge amount of foreign DNA.
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