It's thought that tardigrades first appeared before the Cambrian, which is around 541 million years ago. To survive that long ...

Tardigrades stand apart from much of the animal kingdom due to their extreme durability, which famously helps the tiny creatures survive being boiled, frozen, irradiated, and fired from a gun ...

This isn't actually a tardigrade floating in space, but they are the first animal shown to be capable of surviving space exposure The moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth's most ...

Researchers from BioBright describe Tardigrade as dynamically recompiling itself based on the environment, thereby constantly changing signatures. If that sounds a little too breathless and ...