#Tardigrades

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Invertibrates

Tardigrada. This phylum is made up of tardigrades, also known as water bears, eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They're among the most resilient animals, able to survive high and low extremes in temperature and pressure.

Tentaculata. This class of comb jellies have colloblasts, sticky cells that trap prey, on their tentacles

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #tardigrades #water bears #ecdytes #comb jellies #Tardigrada #Tentaculata #0x16v0x29

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#halloween costumes #halloween #tardigrade #tardigrades #twitter #tweets #tweet #meme #memes #funny #lol

[bogleech]

I dreamt there was a new kingdom hearts game people hoped I'd review designs from because it gave oogie boogie a boss form where he not only grows bigger but hunches over, creases his body into segments, unfurls more limbs and inverts his head like you roll up a sock, giving him an unmistakable new shape:

This was what he always really was, a much greater being than just the boogieman, known as "Starvation Tardigrade" Oogie Boogie. It felt like an End of Evangelion apocalyptic anime reveal.

The internet was freaking out because it was suddenly obvious this was hidden in his design even in the original movie, pre-planned in the 90s, and it was also how the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise was going to end forever

#kingdom hearts #the nightmare before christmas #oogie boogie #video games #dreams #tardigrades #I guess the tardigrade in Wendell and Wild was Henry Selick's little nod to this grand plan

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Are there any tigers… in space?

Small ones, "Tigerdigrades."

#unreality #tardigrades

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#steal the look #other stuff #tardigrades

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Tardigrade Hypsibius Dujardini. Science Art Sculpture.

Available in ArteFeudo’s Etsy shop.

#arte feudo #tardigrade #sculpture #tardigrades #tardigrade figurine #toy art #art toy #Hypsibius dujardini #water bear #tardigrade art #science art #science toy #microbiology #animal figurine #microscopic creatures #biology art #resin figure #artists on tumblr

[scienceacumen]

Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the best candidate. That's because tardigrades are known to be able to go for decades without food or water, to survive temperatures from near absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, to survive pressures from near zero to well above that on ocean floors, and to survive direct exposure to dangerous radiations.

The far-ranging survivability of these extremophiles was tested in 2011 outside an orbiting space shuttle. Tardigrades are so durable partly because they can repair their own DNA and reduce their body water content to a few percent. Some of these miniature water-bears almost became extraterrestrials in 2011 when they were launched toward to the Martian moon Phobos, and again in 2021 when they were launched toward Earth's own moon, but the former launch failed, and the latter landing crashed.

Tardigrades are more common than humans across most of the Earth. Pictured here in a color-enhanced electron micrograph, a millimeter-long tardigrade crawls on moss.

📷: Nicole Ottawa & Oliver Meckes / Eye of Science / Science Source Images

#science #tardigrades #biology #marine biology #animals #ScienceAcumen #astronomy #news #astronomy news #universo #space science #space exploration #space #research #outer space

[flavorcountry]

Why settle for a boring garden/potted plant/living space?? Hand-built ceramic sculptures

Ediacaran biota! Weird tardigrades! Star Trek buddies! A friend to hold your fruit!

Come take a look??

#making weird little guys is my pandemic hobby #you can have one too why not #also they make great gifts hint hint #ceramics #star trek #ediacaran biota #tardigrades

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The newfound species seen here is one of about 1,300 known types of tardigrades. It was discovered in moss growing on dead tree trunks in Germany’s Black Forest. Far too small to see with the unaided eye, this creature is among billions of life-forms on the forest floor that are essential to the health of the planet. Magnified 2,400 times.

THESE TINY CREATURES ARE MARVELOUS

PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MECKES AND NICOLE OTTOWA

Fungi like this Resinicium bicolor—shown magnified 7,000 times—start breaking down dead trees by digesting lignin, the complex compound that helps form woody cell walls in plants.

Scales of silica cover the single-celled body of a testate amoeba. These types of amoebas are named for the hard shells they create, possibly for protection against environmental changes within the forest litter.

Resembling a fairy’s gift basket, the fruiting body of a slime mold, magnified 400 times, releases spores from its perch on woody debris draped in fungal filaments. Slime molds feast on other microbes found in decaying plant

Some mycorrhizal fungi make their homes inside plant cells, as seen in this cross section of a European blueberry root. This allows soil residents of very different sizes to exchange nutrients—helping the forest

#oliver meckes #nicole ottowa #photographer #tardigrades #moss #germany #black forest #micro photography #nature #national geographic #fungi #resinicium bicolor #testate amoeba #slime mold #mycorrhizal fungi

[aistobascistod]

Ups : Upgrades :: Downs : Downgrades :: TARDIS : TARDIGRADES

#TARDIGRADES

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Invertibrates

Pterobranchia. This class is made up of small worm-shaped sessile marine filter feeders that life in secreted tubes.

Tardigrada. This phylum is made up of tardigrades, also known as water bears, eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They're among the most resilient animals, able to survive high and low extremes in temperature and pressure.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #worms #hemichordates #tardigrades #water bears #ecdytes #Pterobranchia #Tardigrada #0x1av0x65

[strangebiology]

AI tardigrade art found on Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends.

Junji Ito, Hayao Mizazaki, Rembrandt painting, cowboys in old cartoons, Nausicaa in the Valley of, Mucha in Art Nouveaux, Bob Ross, Kentaro Miura Berzerk, Lodi bears for relaxation/studying, and Roger Dean.

#tardigrades #ai #dalle mini #water bears

[charliejaneanders]

Here's the latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct!

Forget space captains and superheroes — in this episode, we celebrate the plumbers, cleaners and infrastructure workers who save the day.Plus we talk to @arielwaldman about living in Antarctica and studying the humble-yet-glorious tardigrade!

#podcasts #science #antarctica #tardigrades #super mario bros #space sweepers #firefly #becky chambers #brazil

[mindblowingscience]

Water is a key ingredient to all life on Earth, yet tardigrades with their near immortal-like powers can somehow endure being sapped of almost all their H2O.

Now, researchers have discovered another trick these chubby microscopic anomalies use to survive years of extreme dehydration.

"Although water is essential to all life we know of, some tardigrades can live without it potentially for decades," says University of Tokyo biologist Takekazu Kunieda.

[...]

"After testing several different kinds, we have found that cytoplasmic-abundant heat soluble (CAHS) proteins, unique to tardigrades, are responsible for protecting their cells against dehydration," Kunieda explains.

Using experiments in human and insect cells, the researchers were able to demonstrate CAHS proteins increase cell stiffness, buttressing the cell against shrinkage caused by lost water pressure. The proteins even protected cells against too much water pressure as well.

Continue Reading.

#Science #Tardigrades #Water Bears #Biology #Zoology #stem #biochemistry

[copperbadge]

“And here’s where the magic happens...”

Originally I bought this as a writing desk, but that was not long before the pandemic and it has saved my ass as the only place in the entire condo where I can comfortably have a video chat, so it became my work desk.

[ID: A workdesk in front of windows with the blinds drawn; the desk is patterned glass resting on sawhorse-style legs. It has two monitors on stands, a basket for cats to the left, the omnipresent glass of Diet Coke below one monitor, a wireless keyboard and mouse, a stand with a laptop on it behind one monitor, and a blue rug beneath the desk for keeping feets warm, along with a few knick-nacks. The monitors feature background art of a tardigrade captioned “Live Tiny Die Never”, by @sarahmckayart.]

I was considering skipping NaClYoHo today; I’m tired, and even with the Adderall just getting through the day is a lot. I did realize while cleaning that my constant poor mood lately is from temporary but ongoing pain from the broken ankle, so hooray for self-awareness, but it’s not like that helps the pain or the mood, so tonight I guess I’ll look into some ways to deal with that.

In any case I looked at the massive list of granular cleaning jobs I have and decided I could cope with wiping down the desk. So I cleared off everything but the cat basket, which is basically glued down, gave it a scrubbing, and put everything back except for a couple of items that I threw out or moved to more appropriate locations. And now I have a clean and decluttered desk, at which I can get absolutely no work done for the rest of the day.

Listened to “Hedonic Adjustment” by The Indicator and “How FTX Imploded” by The Journal, neither especially educational, and a significant portion of the latest episode of It’s Christmastown, “A Floating Meatball of Barbarism”, discussing the 2020 Hallmark film “USS Christmas”, which was a lot more fun. 

#naclyoho #cleaning #desk #tardigrades

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Tardigrade Hypsibius Dujardini Space Edition.

This special edition is composed of 6 unique specimens, each one painted with the colors of a different space nebula.

Available in ArteFeudo’s Etsy shop.

#arte feudo #tardigrade #sculpture #tardigrades #tardigrade figurine #toy art #art toy #Hypsibius dujardini #water bear #tardigrade art #science art #science toy #space #microbiology #resin figure #animal figurine #microscopic creatures #biology art #artists on tumblr