Don't be Tardy...grade: Wacky Studies into the Resilience of Water bears

Radiation, and freezing, and drought oh my! Tardigrades are resistant to all this and more. Emily shows Clara the weird and wacky side of scientific studies including one that shot tardigrades out of a gun. To learn about the only animal that can (BEAR-ly) survive in space, make sure to listen to this week's episode of right up your algae.Tardigrades as a potential model organism in space research: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2006.0088New species of water bear uses fluorescent “shield” to survive lethal UV radiation:https://www.science.org/content/article/new-species-water-bear-uses-fluorescent-shield-survive-lethal-uv-radiationUniversity of Florida Entomology and Nematologyhttps://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/MISC/tardigrade.htmlTardigrade Survival Limits in High-Speed Impacts—Implications for Panspermia and Collection of Samples from Plumes Emitted by Ice Worldshttps://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2405Recovery and reproduction of an Antarctic tardigrade retrieved from a moss sample frozen for over 30 yearshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015300134Tardigrade survive exposure to space in low Earth orbithttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(08)00805-1.pdfSurvival in extreme environments – on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigradeshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02252.x?casa_token=2d-MxR8xW0oAAAAA%3A-plyMfNz54ueBgpYNyu5CskClFbYk5RsSKht-Fzhx0a-w91sbiGTbU9NdJW68ib2MWwbsY8dmw_AmBsr