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Tardigrada can survive in a frozen environment (0 oc) to place a high temperature (151 OC).

Tardigrada (known as Water Bears) are part of the sub-phylum Ecdysozoa. Tardigrada size is very small and live in the water with the feet of eight. Tardigrada first described by Eprhaim Goeze in 1773. Tardigrada name means "slow walker" given by Spallanzani (1777). Tardigrada adult body length is 1.5 mm, the smallest size of 0.1 mm, 0.05 mm sized larvae. Tardigrada can be found in all parts of the world, ranging from Himalayan peaks to the ocean floor, and from the poles to the equator.
The most preferred place in the air-algae. On the beach, land and water can be found in this mini beasts.

The most interesting of these animals is the ability to adapt to extreme environments. Tardigrada can survive in a frozen environment (0 oc) to place a high temperature (151 OC). It can even withstand radiation Rad 570,000, 1,000 times higher than the amount of radiation in which another living thing can survive. Therefore, Tardigrada known as animal polyextremophiles. With these capabilities, Tardigrada a living creature can survive in the event of a nuclear war or other extreme natural disasters. Even Tardigrada can live for 10-100 years in dry conditions, even record Tardigrada survive in dry conditions longest is 120 years old. Unfortunately, after the completion of the estivasi and move the motion for a few minutes, the animal died. Another unique capability of Tardigrada is able to survive in a state space vacuum. In one study in September 2007, Tardigrada can live for as long as 10 days in the space environment. Tardigrada that clicking space using spacecraft FOTON-M3 by the European Space Agency, can survive in a vacuum, exposed to cosmic rays, and can even withstand the sun's UV radiation 1,000 times higher than the radiation on the earth's surface, and this animal also have teeth as sharp as a knife hidden in his mouth shaped tube. In addition, Tardigrada also able to withstand a pressure of 6000 kg / sq cm.

Facts About Tardigrade.

Tardigrades are very small and almost invisible to the eye and Why tardigrades also called water bears? because the body shape looks like bears that live in the water

The most persistent creatures on Earth can live in boiling water, solid ice, and radiation of space. It can survive a decade in the desert, without a drop of water, or in the deepest ocean trenches.

A Spacetime Odyssey, Neil deGrasse Tyson introduce you to small animals Tardigrade, or water bears. The small aquatic invertebrates almost invincible, able to tolerate any conditions and temperatures that would kill almost any other living creatures.

So what makes this tardigrade invertebrate animals have enormous power.

1. Tardigrades change shape to survive without water.

When faced with extreme conditions, tardigrades can dry out completely, replacing nearly water in their bodies with a sugar called trehalose. As a result, they were able to survive the environment that would otherwise kill them.

2. Tardigrades very small size to hide from predators.

For all their resilience, tardigrade is one of the smallest creatures in nature. Barely the size of a poppy seed less than 1.5 millimeters in length, tardigrade can exist in sediments and marine hidden, unnoticed by a potential predator.

3. Tardigrades mouth like a sharp dagger.

Though their numbers may be small, they're fierce! Tardigrade mouth is the most serious weapon, as used spear algae or even other small animals.

4 Tardigrades traveling into space - and survived.

To test the endurance of true Tardigrades, a Swedish researcher K. Ingemar Jonsson of Kristianstad University launched tardigrades into space on the spacecraft FOTON-M3 in low Earth orbit in 2007. Affected by the conditions of space, most of the tardigrades survived and survival of exposure vacuum and cosmic rays, with some even life from deadly levels of UV radiation.

5. Tardigrades already exist on almost every other living organisms.

Tardigrades already roamed the earth and the sea long before humans do - and will most likely outlast us. Will tardigrades into final organism in the universe? Only time will tell.
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Date Published: 02 February 2016 at 14:39