#Water bears

[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

[thoughtportal]

water bear

#tiktok #water bears #Tardigrade #microscope

[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

[mag200]

tardigays

kofi

#my art #its not my fault im obsessed w them they are a perfect animal #tardigrade #water bears #art #queer #lgbtq #lgbtq art #pride

[plushieanimals]

water bear (tardigrade) plush by uncute

#tardigrade #water bear #water bears #marine #bug #insect #bugs #insects #just covering my tags i know it s more complicated than that #plusj #water bear plush #tardigrade plush #toycore #plushcore #plushblr #plushicore #safeplush #kidcore

[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.

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

[correctopinionhaver]

me and my mutuals are like tardigrades. we're tough enough to survive almost any conditions...plus there's the whole "tard" part.

#water bears #tumblr #tardigradse

[5bells]

water bears

#tardigrades #tardigrade #my art #lithography #drowns them drowns them drowns them drowns them drowns them drowns them #water bear #bell rants #water bears

[beeclops]

#hulu #futurama #s11e2 #kif kroker #zapp brannigan #tardigrades #water bears

[bones-and-whatnot]

Shoutout to Honorary Bears.

#or as I like to call them #thematic bears #roll the bones #bears #koalas #binturongs #bearcats #red pandas #raccoons #water bears #tardigrades #honorary bears

[mrsandals]

I cant sleep

Help

#Can't sleep #Help #water bears #Water bear #Pet #Book #3 am things #middle of the night #What the hell is happening #Can't fall asleep #Bored #Lol #Art #Doodle #Oc #Fursona #Furry oc #Weasel #Pine marten #Weasel oc #Original character #Drawing #3 am drawing #Ibis paint #Ibis paint x #original art #design #agatha christie #And then there were none

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Ecdytes

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.

Euonychophora. This phylum is made up of velvet worms, long soft-bodied many-legged invertibrates. They are the only phylum of animal to exist on land but not water. They have slime glands on their heads, which produce and squirt slime they use to ensnare prey and deter predators.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #tardigrades #water bears #ecdytes #velvet worms #worms #Tardigrada #Euonychophora #0x65v0x9a #animal tournament #Animal Tournament Round 1

[cloudedsunshines]

will you still find me attractive when i step out of the shower only wearing water bear slippers ?

#mine #water bears #wlw #will you still love me

[schistostegapennata]

Just a reminder that in 2019, a shipment of tardigrades, aka moss piglets, crash-landed on the moon. These little guys are also able to survive in the most extreme environments, including in space. So the moon may very well be populated by moss piglets.

#Moss #moss piglets #tardigrades #water bears #Move over mushroom people from the HG Wells book the moon's been invaded by moss piglets

[geeky-fuckery]

#tardigrades #moss piglets #water bears

[incrediblebeasties]

As one form of extremotolerance, tardigrades can survive almost complete desiccation by entering a dormant state called anhydrobiosis (i.e., life without water), which allows them to reversibly halt their metabolism.

The authors were surprised by the sheer number of independent duplications of heat-soluble genes, which painted a much more complex picture of anhydrobiosis-related gene evolution.

#tardigrades #water bears #extreme #anhydrobiosis