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Tardigrades can survive being shot out of a high-speed gun – Livescience.com
New research has found that these hardy critters can make it out alive — up to a point.
Tardigrades
, those adorable, chubby water bears, are notoriously hardy they may even survive an apocalypse that wipes out humanity.
But can these hardy water bears survive being shot from a gun? New research has found that yes, these hardy critters can make it out alive, but they also have a breaking point.
The new study was inspired by uncertainty about the fate of tardigrades that were aboard Israel’s Beresheet probe when it crash-landed on the moon in 2019, according to Science magazine
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