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Newly-Discovered Tardigrade Glows Blue to Block Deadly Radiation – Futurism
The tardigrades went about daily life while scientists blasted them with UV radiation.
Shields Up
Just in case you thought tardigrades couldnt be any more indestructible, scientists just discovered a new species of the little buggers that seems unbothered by deadly levels of ultraviolet radiation.
Youll commonly hear of tardigrades, also known as water bears, lumped together under one umbrella. But there are actually some 1,300 species of the tiny animals. This new one, named Paramacrobiotus BLR, glows a deep blue when exposed to UV radiation which, as Gizmodo reports, scientis…
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