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If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...

Tardigrades can survive in extreme environments, but a 2021 study showed they're not indestructible. Scientists found these creatures couldn't survive speeds above 2,000 mph when shot out of a gun.

Tardigrades are well-known for their amazing survival skills, and scientists are exploring whether some of those impressive abilities could help humans. A new study from the University of Wyoming ...

Tardigrades — those darling, near-microscopic critters that are nearly indestructible — carry proteins that could keep critical drugs and medical treatments stable without refrigeration, scientists ...

If you're going to try "tattooing" a microscopic animal, it would make sense to select one of the toughest creatures on the planet. That's exactly what scientists have done with the tardigrade, and ...

They're found on Mount Everest, in the deep seas, aboard the International Space Station and thousands of them have even crash landed and been spilled onto the moon. The microscopic water bear has a ...