Scientists are just starting to understand the tardigrade. It can survive boiling water, outer space, and extreme radiation. Following is a transcript of the video. This funny looking little guy ...

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 ...

It's thought that tardigrades first appeared before the Cambrian, which is around 541 million years ago. To survive that long ...

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 ...

They decided to add actual tardigrades-- super-tough microscopic creatures, also known as "water bears," that can be dehydrated and revived at least a decade later -- to the resin that sealed the ...

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 ...