1. Tardigrades are microscopic creatures with many nicknames. The name Tardigrade means “slow moving” and refers to their bear-like crawling movement. Their movement and appearance has also gi ...

They decided to add actual tardigrades-- super-tough microscopic creatures, also known as "water bears," that can be dehydrated and revived at least a decade later -- to the resin that sealed the ...

When the German zoologist Ephraim Goeze first recognized, described, and named the kleiner Wasserbär (“Little Waterbear”) in 1773, he could not yet have guessed that he had found the Chuck Norris of ...