The water bears: microscopic invertebrates with eight stubby legs, famous for surviving extreme conditions, near-total dehydration, radiation many times a lethal human dose, and brief exposure to the vacuum of space, by entering a dormant state called cryptobiosis. Tardigrada is found in mosses, lichens and sediment on every continent, including Antarctica.
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Living or Extinct Tardigrada
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1. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
2. Catalogue of Life
Wikidata: Tardigrada
Wikipedia: Tardigrade
Parent Taxon Of: Water Bear, Infobox: taxon
Tardigrada
In Group: Minor Animal Phyla, Lead
Tardigrades ( ), also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.
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