🐻🛡️ #Tardigrades use a unique protein called Dsup to shield their #DNA from deadly radiation, which could revolutionize #cancer treatment and protect astronauts in space.
#medicine #biology #astrobiology #space #research #genetics #science #innovation
🔬🐻 Microscope footage shows a baby water bear (#tardigrade) breaking free from its egg after its mother drags babies around in a sack of shed exoskeleton. A tardigrade researcher explains that water bears use two egg-laying strategies – either in the shed skin with smooth eggs, or freely in the environment with ornamented eggs that prevent them from washing away in rain.
👉 https://nautil.us/witness-the-rare-birth-of-a-water-bear-1244573/
#tardigrades #microscopy #biology #science #nature #extremophiles #animals #birth
#NewSpecies!
New tardigrade from #USA just snuck in:
Milnesium warrenwilsonensis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C30F34-A037-FF8A-9FC8-FCD848CD85FE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.2.3
#Zootaxa #MilnesiumWarrenwilsonensis
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Nice video on #tardigrades #beerbeestjes @janvanarkel
Exploring the Survival Secrets of Tardigrades: Earth's Hardiest Creatures
Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic animals renowned for their incredible resilience. These creatures, no bigger than 1mm, have survived extreme conditions like outer space, freezing, intense heat, and high radiation. While their appearance may be unassuming, thei... [More info]
Tardigrades — eight-legged micro-animals — can survive just about anything. Now, scientists are trying to figure out how to harness those superpowers for humans' benefit Here's more from @BBCNews.
"If you went into outer space without protection, you'd die. Yet a tiny animal no larger than 1mm long – about the size of a pinhead – has survived this and more. Under the microscope, tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are fearsome looking creatures. Their podgy misshapen faces, ferocious claws and dagger-like teeth make them look more like a monster from Doctor Who than an animal."
Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun, or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts even think this eight-legged micro-animal could outlive every other species on Earth – including humans – and survive right up until the Sun dies.
@MrLee Some of the above promises are too general/incorrect* (LLM generated?). *e.g. the photosynthesis
Beside it's #climateAction power, #moss is also great for #biodiversity and #soilHealth: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moss-the-emerald-treasure/id1630784381?i=1000707856049 (I researched the facts with human brain).
Pay attention with moss design companies: they are not always sustainably working!
#mosstodon #tardigrades #soil #UrbanGreening #solarpunkSunday
Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are tiny creatures with stubby legs and a lumbering gait — but they’re among the toughest lifeforms on Earth. They survive extreme heat, cold, pressure, radiation, even the vacuum of space.
NASA even sent them to the ISS, where they orbited Earth 7,000 times. Scientists worldwide study their “superpowers” — from DNA-shielding proteins to bizarre mating rituals — which may even help humans reach Mars.
Some #tardigrades have an unusual #sex move.
1. He penetrates her skin anywhere and jizzes just inside it.
2. She sheds her skin, then lays eggs in it.
Oh baby
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