tardigrades in A Sentence

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    Water bears are Tardigrades, meaning“ slow walkers.”.

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    But Tardigrades have two more arrows in their extremophile quiver, neither of them shared with Liu's Trisolarans.

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    Not their only astounding survival trick, Tardigrades can survive numerous other extremes we humans would die instantly in.

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    Most Tardigrades eat plant matter and bacteria, although some prey on nematodes(tiny worms) or other creatures, foraging around with their signature-lumbering gait.

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    Although Tardigrades generally consist of males and females, some species have been identified as parthenogenic(a form of asexual reproduction) or even hermaphroditic.

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    Most Tardigrades eat plant matter and bacteria, although some prey on nematodes(tiny worms) or other creatures, foraging around with their signature lumbering gait.

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    Tardigrades can also survive as high as 5,000 grays or 500,000 rads of ionizing radiation, though above 100,000 rads does seem to make them sterile.

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    While in cryptobiosis, Tardigrades' metabolic activity gets as low as 0.01 percent of normal levels, and their organs are protected by a sugary gel called trehalose.

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    In any event, when Tardigrades dry up, they become“tuns”, little capsules that are easily transported and dispersed over the Earth via the wind, the oceans, or in an animal's gut.

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    Given that Tardigrades possess the kind of powers we otherwise associate with comic-book superheroes, it might seem that they are creatures out of science fiction, but maybe it's the other way around.

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    The Tardigrades brought by Beresheet may have survived on the surface of the Moon- News of August 20, 2019- Last April the Israeli lander Beresheet crashed on the surface of the Moon.

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    Tardigrades are able to survive even during a nuclear war Tardigrades- the tiny creatures, whose amazing survival in the most extreme conditions allows them to easily be even under high ionizing radiation thousands of times.

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    Its subjects included live Tardigrades, who returned from space after orbiting Earth for 12 days, all the while being subjected to the near vacuum of space and the full spectra of deadly solar and cosmic radiation.

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    Purists don't include Tardigrades among extremophiles, since they don't appear to be adapted to extreme environments per se- that is, like us, they do best in comparatively benign conditions, which, in the case of Tardigrades includes the moist, temperate miniworld of forest moss and lichens.

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    Not only that, but whereas typical extremophiles specialise in going about their lives along one axis of environmental extremity- extreme heat or cold, one or another heavy metal, and so forth- Tardigrades can survive when things get dicey along many different and seemingly independent dimensions, simultaneously and come what may.

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