Tardigrades

Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears. In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which means "slow steppers". They have been found everywhere, from mountaintops to the deep sea and mud volcanoes, and from tropical rainforests to the Antarctic. Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals known, with individual species able to survive extreme conditions—such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation—that would quickly kill most other known forms of life.

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Add to Wishlist	Deck/File Name: Tardigrades (tardigrades)
	Made/Donated by: Jun / Jun	Color: Burlywood
	Released: 2021-03-13	Masterable: Yes
	Wished by: saya, Mysti
	Mastered by: Ashley

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