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- 1Microscope footage shows a tardigrade, nature's toughest survivor●This is a tardigrade — the water bear — going about its day under the microscope. Hard to believe this chubby little blo
Microscope footage of a tardigrade, or water bear, is circulating online. The tiny animal, barely a millimetre long, is shown moving and feeding under magnification. People are sharing the clip for its near-unbelievable resilience: tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space, radiation hundreds of times the human lethal dose, and years without water by drying into a dormant state called a tun.