• Tardigrades are hardy enough to survive large asteroid impacts and even supernova blasts. • Water bears have survived all five mass extinctions on Earth since they first evolved about half a billion ...

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...

The study of tardigrade taxonomy and biodiversity has advanced considerably through the integration of morphological, molecular and ecological approaches. By combining high‐resolution imaging, ...

A 1000-fold higher dose repair is neat, but the ability to survive few years of no DNA repair merely points out the gap to various space applications (suspended animation, transpermia candidates et ...