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Tardigrades, also known as water bears, aren’t just one species, but a phylum that contains many hundreds of species, each specialized to different ecological niches found across the planet — some of them very extreme.
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2025
But tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are among the toughest survivors evolution has ever carved out.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Guided by their teachers, nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren, ages 7 to 16, helped scientists from the Natural History Museum of Denmark catalog tiny, water-dwelling animals known as tardigrades, or water bears, and their microhabitats.
—Paulina Rowińska, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Often known as water bears, tardigrades are super-tough microscopic animals that can survive in some of the most extreme environments on the planet.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2024
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2025
But tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are among the toughest survivors evolution has ever carved out.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Guided by their teachers, nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren, ages 7 to 16, helped scientists from the Natural History Museum of Denmark catalog tiny, water-dwelling animals known as tardigrades, or water bears, and their microhabitats.
—Paulina Rowińska, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Often known as water bears, tardigrades are super-tough microscopic animals that can survive in some of the most extreme environments on the planet.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2024
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“Water bear.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20bear. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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