So when times get tough, tardigrades play dead. They hunch up into little dried husks and more or less shut down, which drops their metabolisms to 0.01 percent of their usual rate. In this ...

Dating back to the Cambian era, 530 million years ago, tardigrades are aquatic eight-legged micro-animals of less than a millimetre in length, typically 500 microns. They have most of the organs ...

in a written statement -- even though we know the moon to be 100 percent dead. (It would be a different story if Spivack had smuggled tardigrades to Mars, as he himself admits.) SEE ALSO ...

When the German zoologist Ephraim Goeze first recognized, described, and named the kleiner Wasserbär (“Little Waterbear”) in 1773, he could not yet have guessed that he had found the Chuck Norris of ...

Researchers have found a way to use tardigrade proteins to potentially revolutionize cancer treatment and space travel.

Tardigrades, or water bears, are microscopic animals with incredible survival skills—they can withstand extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space. They can also tolerate high doses of radiation.

1. Tardigrades are microscopic creatures with many nicknames. The name Tardigrade means “slow moving” and refers to their bear-like crawling movement. Their movement and appearance has also gi ...