Tardigrades

On September 14, 2007, a European Space Agency exposure platform bolted to the outside of a Russian Foton-M3…

Hidden deep below the ground, a vast ecosystem of tiny organisms is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how life…

Tardigrades are tiny, endearing, and practically invincible. As it turns out, however, not even tardigrades can survive the…

Penn State University scientists studying the potential habitability of Mars exposed microscopic animals called tardigrades to a batch…

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic…

Some animals push the limits of survival in ways that almost defy biological expectation. They endure temperatures that…

When we imagine the end of the world, we often picture humanity scrambling for survival, but nature might…

In 2007, ESA sent 3,000 tardigrades into low Earth orbit; after 10 days of vacuum and UV-A/UV-B exposure, 68% revived upon rehydration