Water+Bears

The water bear also called Tardigarde is one of the most interesting microscopic animals ever for being only //barely// the size of a poppy seed and having been around longer than humans and probably long after. they've been around for half a million years already so why wouldn't they out live us? Why?have you heard of any other animal that can go up to 120 //years// not hours, months, or days but years without food or water? they do it by their trick cryptobiosis which stops the metobolic procces. Another amazing superpower is as they start to dry out from that whole lack of water thing they make a type of sugar called trehalose which //replaces// the water they lose as they begin to dry down, but not all water bears produce this sugar because there is over 1,000 different species and what fun would it be if they all had the exact same super powers?



When they are alive and actually eating they have this thing called a stylet which is their mouth. In this mouth they have dagger like teeth used to spear algae and other small animals or insects. How about one that can withstand temperatures from 300 to -458 degrees fahrenheit? Which is suprising because they do have a brain not a very complex one but its still a brain. However when the water bear gets that cold all of its atoms come almost to a complete standstill. still not convinced? here is a list of this extremophiles other superpowers, they can withstand pressures up to six times greater whats found in the ocean. If we tried withstanding even close to thst we'd become human pancakes. They have survived an incredible amount of radiation including UV rays, vaccum, and cosmic rays.They can also survive the vaccum of space... yes SPACE... crazy huh?