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I'm Ashley Papp.

Imagine a little critter that isn't quite an insect or an animal.

It's about one millimeter in length, shaped like a gummy bear with eight legs and covered in tough,

almost crunchy-looking scales. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Tardagrade. They basically

look like more or less something between a warm and a bear with more legs. They got the name

water bears from their lumbering gate.

When they walk, they kind of sway from side to side, which is quite cute.

That's Jessica Emon, a research scientist and former student researcher at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

And she's pretty obsessed with the water bear.

So that's basically when I fell in love with the tardigrade because it sat there under

my binoculars and it got up its front of the body and it was waving at me.

Tardigrates have been around for even longer than the dinosaurs by like 200 million years.

And over all of this time, they've developed some pretty nifty ways to survive harsh environmental

conditions.

When things get too dry or too cold, a tardigrade can lower its metabolism to nearly

zero and go dormant for years.

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