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After rehydrating a tardigrade, she observed one of its front legs moving.
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The tardigrade curls up into a dry husk Somehow tardigrades avoid all this.
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An inactive tardigrade might not die of thirst, but it could get eaten.
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I asked, indicating the tardigrade, "What has this to do with me?"
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So first you go through a bacterial level, which we called the tardigrade level, internally.
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It's not known how tardigrade eggs survive such punishment.
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Shedding almost all the water in its body, the tardigrade curls up into a dry husk.
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It may be that becoming as tough as a tardigrade wouldn't pay off for other animals.
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Only a tiny number of creatures, such as the famously hardy tardigrade, can survive the process.
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He found that when a tardigrade dries out it retracts its head and its eight legs.
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If a tardigrade stays in its dry tun state for a long time, its DNA gets damaged.
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The thing about the tardigrade level is that there is reference for that in the real world.
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Similarly, freezing a tardigrade and drying it out both cause the same problem: not enough liquid water in the animal's cells.
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Except in the microscopic world beneath our feet, where there lives what is perhaps the toughest creature on Earth: the tardigrade.
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They tend to live in or near water, and there's nothing a tardigrade likes more than a good chunk of moss and lichen.
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Whatever the mechanisms, the study's authors think their results are good news for dried-out tardigrade families ejected into space, perhaps by an asteroid strike.