You’ve heard of grizzly bears, black bears, and polar bears, but prepare to meet the fiercest bear of them all…and he happens to be smaller than a grain of rice! The water bear, alongside the moss piglet, is a species of tardigrade, a group of microscopic organisms no larger than a single millimetre in length. […]
indestructible animals
The tale of tardigrades
What is the most indestructible animal you can think of? Has it been frozen, or sent into outer space’s vacuum and radiation, or dried out for eight years, survived all five mass extinction events, or boiled? And, after all that, has come back to life and successfully reproduced? I’ll tell you what can – cooties. […]