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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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)...

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

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

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

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

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...

swolenskyi is a species of tardigrade from the Cretaceous period. It, Beorn and Paradoryphoribius are the only known tardigrade genera in the fossil record...

Echiniscoides sigismundi is a species of marine tardigrade. It lives in seaweeds or plates of barnacles, or more generally in algal strongholds in inter-tidal...

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

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

May 2011). "Tardigrades: Water bears in space". BBC. Archived from the original on 23 December 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2011. "Tardigrades: Water bears...

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...

The following is a list of the classes in each phylum of the kingdom Animalia. There are 107 classes of animals in 33 phyla in this list. However, different...