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We Just Found Another Trick Tardigrades Use to Be Basically Indestructible – ScienceAlert
The world’s most indestructible critter just got even more indestructible.
The world’s most indestructible critter just got even more indestructible.
Not content with its existing abilities to survive extreme temperatures, pressures, and the airless vacuum of space, the humble yet seemingly unkillable tardigrade looks to have unlocked another amazing superpower: the ability to withstand lethal doses of ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
While we have observed tardigrades surviving radiation before now thanks to a ‘damage suppression’ protein called Dsup, this UV resistance …
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