tardigrade
water bear informal
moss piglet

There are more than 1000 different species of tardigrade.

In this cryptobiotic state the tardigrade is known as a tun.

The tardigrade, or water bear, is a widely studied and notable example, partially because it can undergo all five types of cryptobiosis.

Hypsibiidae is a family of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.

Milnesium tardigradum is a species of Tardigrade found in the sea around Antarctica.

Survival in space is not limited to bacteria, lichens or archea: the animal Tardigrade has been proven to survive the vacuum of space.

Another invertebrate that is briefly tolerant to temperatures down to -273 C is the Tardigrade, an extremophile.

Astatumen is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada found in Romania.

Echiniscus testudo is a species of tardigrade native to China, Greenland, and Mongolia.

The genome of a tardigrade species, Hypsibius dujardini, is being sequenced at the Broad Institute.

On the list of causes people should get behind, elimination of IP ranks somewhere between saving itchy alge and Tardigrade rights.

Or alternatively, Mom or Dad can describe how God sat at the workbench to design, say, the tardigrade, so it could "survive being frozen, boiled, squashed and quite a few other trials besides."

Johann August Ephraim Goeze originally named the Tardigrade kleiner Wasserbär (Bärtierchen today), meaning 'little water bear' in German.

Water bears (Tardigrade), microscopic multicellular organisms, can survive freezing at low temperatures by replacing most of their internal water with the sugar trehalose, preventing it from crystallization that otherwise damage cell membranes.

Neither are all extremophiles unicellular; protostome animals found in similar environments include the Pompeii worm, the Psychrophile Grylloblattodea (insects), Antarctic krill (a crustacean), and the "Tardigrade".

In particular, he contributed to tardigrade and bdelloid rotifer science: describing 113 species and forma of rotifer and 66 species of tardigrade.

In the seventies Marcus of the University of Sao Paulo-that's in Brazil-estimated that a tardigrade would have a lifespan of less than a year if it never entered the cryptobiotic state.

For comparison, a chest X-ray or Apollo mission involves about 1 mGy, 5 Gy can kill a human, 200-800 Gy will kill E. coli, and over 4,000 Gy will kill the radiation-resistant tardigrade.

The microscopic participants in LIFE include the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, known for its ability to withstand high doses of radiation, and the eight-legged tardigrade (or "water bear"), a microscopic invertebrate that has already demonstrated its ability to survive short exposure to the space environment.

Of course when your chief newscaster is a hand puppet you have to be a little superficial in your-" "The curious phenomenon of cryptobiosis, meaning hidden life, is an ability certain lower invertebrates, such as the tardigrade, have to survive in a state of suspended animation," explained the rumpled doctor.