Tardigrades are ancient, fascinating creatures that can survive conditions that would kill most life forms, including extreme heat and absolute zero, extreme pressure and a vacuum, and deadly radiation. They can even survive being desiccated for years, and can repair any damaged DNA. Discover some of the adaptations tardigrades have developed so that they can seemingly survive just about anything.

Concepts

animal adaptations, animal classification

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Additional Tags

adapting to extreme environments, animals in extreme environments, extreme animals, moss piglet, water bear, waterbear, tardigrada

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