This funny looking little guy can survive boiling hot water, outer space, and decades without food or water. It's called a "tardigrade" or "water bear". It's just one of many aquatic invertebrates ...

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

The world’s most resilient animal, the microscopic tardigrade, produces a radiation-resisting protein that could revolutionize cancer treatment, according to a new study. Scientists found that ...

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 ...

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 ...