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  2. How Cryptobiosis Makes Tardigrades Almost Indestructible - AOL

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    Tardigrades are affectionately known as water bears or moss piglets and are tiny invertebrates measuring a maximum of 0.05 inches in length. Viewed through a microscope, they look a little like a ...

  3. Environmental tolerance in tardigrades - Wikipedia

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    Of those, 406 are specific to tardigrades, 55 being intrinsically disordered and the others globular with unknown functions. [31] Tardigrades possess a cold shock protein; Maria Kamilari and colleagues propose (2019) that this may serve "as a RNA-chaperone involved in regulation of translation [of RNA code to proteins] following freezing." [9]

  4. New 'indestructible' species of tardigrade found lurking in ...

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    Tardigrades, aka water bears, are known to be indestructible. They can survive extreme temps, intense radiation, and recover from complete dehydration. New 'indestructible' species of tardigrade ...

  5. Scientists now think they know why tardigrades are so ... - AOL

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    Tardigrades, or water bears, thrive in some of Earth’s harshest environments. Now, researchers say they have unlocked the survival mechanism of the tiny creature. Scientists now think they know ...

  6. 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 '.

  7. 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.

  8. Tardigrades: we're now polluting the moon with near ...

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    An Israeli spacecraft carrying tardigrades crashed into the moon. Whether they will survive is irrelevant. Tardigrades: we're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

  9. Cryptobiosis - Wikipedia

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    Anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade Richtersius coronifer. Anhydrobiosis is the most studied form of cryptobiosis and occurs in situations of extreme desiccation.The term anhydrobiosis derives from the Greek for "life without water" and is most commonly used for the desiccation tolerance observed in certain invertebrate animals such as bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades, brine shrimp, nematodes, and ...