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Microscope footage shows a tardigrade, nature's toughest survivor

Original: This is a tardigrade — the water bear — going about its day under the microscope. Hard to believe this chubby little blo

Microscope footage of a tardigrade, or water bear, is circulating online. The tiny animal, barely a millimetre long, is shown moving and feeding under magnification. People are sharing the clip for its near-unbelievable resilience: tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space, radiation hundreds of times the human lethal dose, and years without water by drying into a dormant state called a tun.

Why now: Striking microscope footage of the famously indestructible creature is being widely shared and admired

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• This is a tardigrade — the water bear — going about its day under the microscope. Hard to believe this chubby little blob, barely 1mm long, can survive the vacuum of space, radiation hundreds of times the human lethal dose, and a decade with no water: it dries into a 'tun' and… · eatrics · 11

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