James Weiss recently captured one of the first known recordings of a tardigrade threesome. The videographer also caught pairs of tardigrades mating for up to two hours at a time. The water bear ...

A newfound species of tardigrade, or "water bear," with tendril-festooned eggs has been discovered in the parking lot of an apartment building in Japan. They're bizarre and adorable at the same time, ...

A newfound species of tardigrade, or "water bear," with tendril-festooned eggs has been discovered in the parking lot of an apartment building in Japan. The newfound tardigrade, Macrobiotus shonaicus, ...

• Tardigrades are hardy enough to survive large asteroid impacts and even supernova blasts. • Water bears have survived all five mass extinctions on Earth since they first evolved about half a billion ...

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It started as a speck of a speck, a bundle of nerves and immature tissues curled up inside an egg, bunched up against its siblings. The small clutch of embryonic water bears was immobile, silent, ...

The new species of tardigrade, Macrobiotus shonaicus found in the moss of a Japanese parking lot. Stec et al., PLOS One 2018 Kazuharu Arakawa, a molecular biologist at Japan's Keio University, is in ...