Tradigrade is also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of water-dwelling eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears. In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which means “slow steppers”.
The main reason of writing this is most of the people don’t know about tradigrade,which is the most toughest animal on earth. It can survive in space,inside a volcano,in the arctic ice, and they can live even in the deepest point of the ocean and they’ve been around for 500 millions years ago,surviving all five massive extentions.
Scientist are tying to figure out what makes tradigrade indestructible.In 2007, a research team has took them is space, there was no more a big deal, it survived in the vaccum of space and solar radiation for 10 full days.First, they are found in arctic circle about -20 degrees,and they can even have babies ,how can they do this…?? here is the secret and amazing trick behind this, actually it can turn into a “tun”, which looks like a nutshell,which protects if from many things.
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