A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone. His setup cost under $1,000. The ...

• 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 ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

"If you watch tardigrades under a light microscope for long enough, you can capture a wide range of behavior," Nirody says. "We didn't force them to do anything. Sometimes they would be really chill ...

Good luck finding an animal tougher than a tardigrade. These tiny creatures are famous for their ability to survive in the most extreme conditions, including boiling water, freezing water, and even ...

Tardigrades have a reputation as some of the hardiest critters in the animal kingdom. It's well-earned: The microscopic creatures can survive in the vacuum of space, inside a volcano, and in an ...

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Scientists have discovered just the third fossil tardigrade we've ever found -- while they were looking for something else entirely. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...