Tough little tardigrades use biofluorescence to resist damage from ultraviolet rays. Source: https://www.livescience.com/tardigrade-fluorescence.html
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Tubby ‘tardigrade’ crawls across sun’s surface in spectacular images
New images of the solar surface, the closest ever seen, included a flaw that resembled a tardigrade. Source: https://www.livescience.com/sun-tardigrade-solar-orbiter-images.html
‘Disco’ tardigrade parties under microscope, wins international photo prize
A tardigrade, a mouse brain and a wasp ovary were some of the standout images in a contest celebrating the beauty in the very small. Source: https://www.livescience.com/trippy-tardigrade-image-of-the-year.html
Tardigrade DNA Added to Human Cells Could Help Us Survive on Mars, Scientist Says
Will we one day combine tardigrade DNA with our cells to go to Mars? Source: https://www.livescience.com/tardigrade-dna-humans-to-survive-mars.html
Geneticists propose human/tardigrade hybrids
Combining tardigrade DNA with our own could one day improve our ability to survive for long periods in space. Human beings are not built for space – t… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331930/geneticists-propose-humantardigrade-hybrids…
Tardigrades Could (Maybe) Survive a Nuclear Attack. And Now We Know How.
Scientists deciphered a key ingredient in tardigrades’ arsenal of superpowers, learning how a unique protein protects the microscopic water bears from harmful radiation. Source: https://www.livescience.com/tardigrade-protein-radiation-protection.html
Did these tardigrades survive crash-landing on the moon?
When Israel’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades – water bears – aboard. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tardigrades-lunar-library-beresheet-spacecraft-crash-moon…