Tardigrade - World's Toughest Animal

• This crazy looking thing is known as the Tardigrade!! Tardigrades (also known as waterbears or moss piglets) are water-dwelling, segmented micro-animals, with eight legs.
• It is the hardiest known animal in existence. It can survive for ten days in vacuum whereas the amount of time a human can survive in space unprotected is 2 minutes.
• Tardigrades are the earth’s most tenacious creature can live in boiling water, solid ice, and the intense radiation of space. It can survive a decade in a desert, without a drop of water to drink, or in the deepest trenches of the sea

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