THE MOST INDUSTRUCTABLE ANIMALS IN THE WORLD
They have eight legs (four pairs) and each leg has four to eight claws that resemble the claws of a bear.
Boil the 1mm creatures, freeze them, dry them, expose them to radiation and they're so resilient they'll still be alive 200 years later.
Water bears can live through temperatures as low as -457 degrees, heat as high as 357 degrees, and 5,700 grays of radiation, when 10-20 grays would kill humans and most other animals.
Tardigrades have been around for 530 million years and outlived the dinosaurs.
The animals can also live for a decade without water and even survive in space.
From the sounds of their description, it would surprise me if their are live ones still swimming around down there. (Hmm - 4,000 years, no predators or competition. Hopefully they aren’t 100-feet tall and pissed that we disturbed them!
I feed mine kibble...
Wow. My next Halloween costume.
Or is it Whoopi Goldberg before she hits the makeup room?
Now we know the ancestry of Ruth Bader (Waterbaderbear) Ginsburg, Rosie O’Donnell, Joyce Behar (the Hebrew version of Waterbear), Maxine “Antarctic” Waters (bears - she changed her name), and Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi is old Italian for Waterbear).
Looks just like them, the spawn of the Ice Devil.
Interesting.