How to Use tardigrade in a Sentence
tardigrade
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Of all the weird, tiny organisms out there, tardigrades might just be the cutest.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
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At first, the researchers didn't even notice the tardigrade was trapped in the piece of amber.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
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Like other tardigrades, M. shonaicus has a chunky body, eight legs and a round mouth.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2018
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Matching up to the hardiness of the tardigrade is tough.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
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But here, too, the tardigrade seems oddly prepared for life in space.
—William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
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But no governing body had a say in the tardigrade matter at all.
—Loren Grush, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2019
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That's because tardigrades tend to lumber along like a bear.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
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The question now is, are those tardigrades able to survive on the lunar surface?
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
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For good measure, extra tardigrades were stuck to tape that that was attached to the library.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
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The tardigrade found to have this trait is called the Paramacrobiotus BLR strain.
—Megan Marples, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
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Earth is home to remarkably sturdy life like the tardigrade.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2018
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This would be catastrophic for many life-forms on the surface, but tardigrades would have a refuge.
—National Geographic, 14 July 2017
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Not wanting to sacrifice the tardigrade, Stamets took its place instead with the new serum, and survived a near brush with death.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
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Then there was the case of the Beresheet, a private Israeli lunar lander, which crashed on the moon and spilled its cargo of a few thousand tardigrades in the process.
—Monica Vidaurri, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2019
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The species is part of a set of tardigrades known as hufelandi, which had not been identified anywhere in East Asia.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
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Within it, were thousands of little tardigrades, stuck to the payload via special tape.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
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Miller, who has studied and written about tardigrades, was not involved with this research.
—Jenna Schnuer, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
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Seems weird that Starfleet would openly endorse finding more tardigrades to enslave them so their ships can hop around the galaxy.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
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Still, the researchers say there’s much more work to be done to understand how free radicals are working in tardigrades.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
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The book has my own daughters wanting to get some moss from our backyard under a microscope to hunt for their very own tardigrades.
—Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
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In the last few years, tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, have gotten a lot of attention for being tough.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
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The latest study is also providing clues into how tardigrades came to be.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
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But among the few survivors would likely be the microscopic tardigrade.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
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One of the new CG ghosts, Muncher, took cues from a tardigrade (microscopic water bear) and glass frogs for translucency.
—Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022
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The third-ever tardigrade fossil on record has been found within a piece of 16-million-year-old Dominican amber.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
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When things get too dry or too cold, a tardigrade can lower its metabolism to nearly zero and go dormant for years.
—Ashleigh Papp, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
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One of the more fascinating organisms in the microsphere is the common tardigrade!
—Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
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The promising thing about the tardigrades, says Spivack, is that they could hypothetically be revived in the future.
—Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2019
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The toughest Earth creature could be the water bear, or tardigrades, which are .04 inch long invertebrate animals that live in mosses, soil, or lichens on earth.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
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Video provided by Newsy Newslook More news from the bizarre world of tardigrades, those freaky microscopic creatures that look like something out of your weirdest nightmares.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
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