Tardigrades (/ˈtɑːrdɪɡreɪdz/ ), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first...

during a failed landing attempt. Its payload included a few thousand tardigrades (also known as water bears). Initial reports suggested they could have...

Beorn is an extinct genus of tardigrade and the first known fossil tardigrade, discovered c. 1940 and described in 1964 from Late Cretaceous amber from...

Tardigrade specific proteins are types of intrinsically disordered proteins specific to tardigrades. These proteins help tardigrades survive desiccation...

agreed upon, but the position of tardigrades is more controversial. Some phylogenomic studies have found tardigrades to be more closely related to nematodes...

Parachela is an order of tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada. Members of this order have existed for at least 72 million years, up to the present. The...

Biostasis project. These approaches are based on research into diapause in tardigrades and wood frogs which suggests that selective stabilization of intracellular...

(contraction of damage suppressor) is a DNA-associating protein, unique to the tardigrade, that suppresses the occurrence of DNA breaks by radiation. When human...

Milnesium tardigradum is a cosmopolitan species of tardigrade that can be found in a diverse range of environments. It has also been found in the sea around...

observed in certain invertebrate animals such as bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades, brine shrimp, nematodes, and at least one insect, a species of chironomid...

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Stygarctus keralensis is a species of marine tardigrade. It is described from the intertidal area of Vadakara beach, Kerala it can be easily differentiated...

Bertolanius is a genus of tardigrades belonging to the family Eohypsibiidae. The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America. Species:...

Extant phyla in these rocks include molluscs, brachiopods, onychophorans, tardigrades, arthropods, echinoderms and hemichordates, along with numerous now-extinct...

encased in a block of ice that is apparently virulently infected with tardigrades, and after thawing, they are attacked by a shapeshifting alien monster...

Aerobius is a genus of extinct tardigrades ("water bears") of the superfamily Hypsibioidea. The genus contains a single species, A. dactylus, known from...

Hypsibius dujardini sensu lato is a species complex of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada. A member of this complex, Hypsibius exemplaris, is widely...

Heterotardigrades (Heterotardigrada) is a class that includes tardigrades (water bears) that have cephalic appendages and legs with four separate but...

Mesotardigrada is one of three classes of tardigrades, consisting of a single species, Thermozodium esakii. The animal reportedly has six claws of equal...

Paradoryphoribius is an extinct genus of tardigrades from the order Parachela. It is the third fossil tardigrade to be named, described in 2021 from Miocene...

Onychophora, the arthropods and the velvet worms) is monophyletic, and tardigrades lie outside this grouping. Anatomic arguments for the tactopoda monophyly...

more closely related to lobopods and tardigrades than to anomalocarids. In 2014, it was found that tardigrades were more closely related to arthropods...

Resnick, Brian (August 6, 2019). "Tardigrades, the toughest animals on Earth, have crash-landed on the moon – The tardigrade conquest of the solar system has...

renders Lobopodia a monophyletic taxon, if indeed it is valid (that is, if Tardigrades and Onychophora are closer to one another than either is to Arthropoda)...

her contributions to the study of tardigrades, microscopic organisms. Diphascon claxtonae, a species of tardigrade, is named for her. Claxton was born...

Bergtrollus is a genus of tardigrades with one species, Bergtrollus dzimbowski. The genus name Bergtrollus is named after the mythical Scandinavian "mountain...

Invertebrates also have a pharynx. Invertebrates with a pharynx include the tardigrades, annelids and arthropods, and the priapulids (which have an eversible...

Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendages. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained the...

Halobiotus is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada. Halobiotus arcturulius Crisp and Kristensen, 1983 Halobiotus...