How to Use tardigrade in a Sentence

tardigrade

noun

• Of all the weird, tiny organisms out there, tardigrades might just be the cutest.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
• At first, the researchers didn't even notice the tardigrade was trapped in the piece of amber.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
• Like other tardigrades, M. shonaicus has a chunky body, eight legs and a round mouth.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2018
• Matching up to the hardiness of the tardigrade is tough.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• But here, too, the tardigrade seems oddly prepared for life in space.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
• But no governing body had a say in the tardigrade matter at all.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2019
• That's because tardigrades tend to lumber along like a bear.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
• That's because tardigrades tend to lumber along like a bear.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• Anything So what happened to the tardigrades that were travelling on the probe?
  — Laurent Palka, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• The question now is, are those tardigrades able to survive on the lunar surface?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• For good measure, extra tardigrades were stuck to tape that that was attached to the library.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• The tardigrade found to have this trait is called the Paramacrobiotus BLR strain.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
• Earth is home to remarkably sturdy life like the tardigrade.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2018
• This would be catastrophic for many life-forms on the surface, but tardigrades would have a refuge.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Within it, were thousands of little tardigrades, stuck to the payload via special tape.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• Miller, who has studied and written about tardigrades, was not involved with this research.
  — Jenna Schnuer, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Inside is a tardigrade, so well-preserved that its tiny claws are still visible.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The latest study is also providing clues into how tardigrades came to be.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
• But among the few survivors would likely be the microscopic tardigrade.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One of the more fascinating organisms in the microsphere is the common tardigrade!
  — Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024