Water bear - HABITANTES DEL MICROMUNDO
Apr 15, 2020 07:26 · 79 words · 1 minute read
Tardigrades or “water bears” are very special animals. Their physiology, able to resist the most extreme environmental conditions, has converted them in emblematic animals for the research on the effects of the radiation and on the environmental conditions in the outer space. This is why some institutions, as the NASA, are studying them accurately. Despite their appearance, they are microscopic animals that use to live among the moss and in some wet areas, where feed on vegetal stuff. .