Tardigrades, Frozen for 30 Years, Spring Back to Life

We knew water bears were resilient. But how resilient are they?

By Nathaniel Scharping
Jan 18, 2016 9:58 PMApr 17, 2020 4:30 PM
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An artist's rendering of a tardigrade. (Credit: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock)

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You can freeze them, burn them, dry them out or even blast them into space, but humble tardigrades can survive it all.

As a demonstration of tardigrade power, a new experiment has shown that even locking the critters in a block of ice for three decades fails to deliver the ultimate knockout.

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