Tardigrades are famous for their extreme durability, but new research shows how good they are at walking, despite their teeny size and squishy bodies. Tardigrades feature a resume beyond compare.

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Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are durable, microscopic aquatic animals about the size of a period at the end of a sentence. They have evolved to thrive in environments as varied as wet ...

They're cute. They're tough. They're microscopic. And apparently they're very coordinated. Tardigrades — the eight-legged, millimeter-long animals also known as "water bears" — are fun to look at and ...

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An enlarged image of a microscopic tardigrade. These invertebrates are considered close relatives of arthropods and are found in a variety of habitats around the world. Most plant-eating tardigrades ...

A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone. His setup cost under $1,000. The ...

Animals as small and soft as tardigrades seldom have legs and almost never bother walking. But a new study finds that water bears propel themselves through sediment and soil on eight stubby legs, in a ...

Regular readers will know I turn into a starry-eyed idiot when new tardigrade news breaks. There's just so much to love about them. Is it gauche to be a biologist and have a favorite animal? The ...

Tardigrades. Water bears. Moss piglets. No matter their name, the microscopic invertebrates are notoriously tough, and now, a team of researchers studied the tardigrade’s ancestors to figure out how ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...