How to pronounce“tardigrade”in English

And tardigrades are just little microscopic animals with six little arms and they live on moss, all they do is suck nutrients off of moss.

But a single tardigrade could take radiation levels that would kill a herd of 100 elephants.

But a single tardigrade could take radiation levels that would kill a herd of a hundred elephants, this tiny little animal is almost completely resistant to radiation and its

And somehow tardigrades' DNA knows how to heal itself right back up.

So we're studying how tardigrade DNA works in the hopes that maybe someday we could even repair radiation damage to human DNA.

So we’re studying how tardigrade DNA works in the hopes that maybe some day we could even repair radiation damage to human DNA.

That little guy over there is a tardigrade.