To tattoo a tardigrade, Zhao and his colleagues adapted a nanofabrication technique called ice lithography. This is a form of ...

and they curl up into a ball called a tun. With this defense mechanism, tardigrades are one of the only species able to live in the most inhospitable corners of the globe. While scientists observed ...

When things get really tough – like if their watery home dries up, it gets too cold, or there's not enough oxygen – the tardigrade curls into a tiny, dried-out ball called a "tun". To do this ...

It's just one of many aquatic invertebrates on the planet, but it's unlike any other life form ... tardigrade releases almost all of its body water and turns into a shrunken little ball called a ...

If the environmental conditions around tardigrades become unfavorable, they shut down their bodies through cryptobiosis, a process that puts tardigrades into a “tun state,” slowing their metabolism ...

It’s tiny, chubby, and practically indestructible. Meet the tardigrade, the only known animal that can survive the brutal vacuum and radiation of outer space.

Despite their need for water, tardigrades can survive droughts by entering what is known as a “tun state” where they tuck in their cells and organ systems, stopping their metabolism and ...

the tardigrade can take it all. 9. They can dry out and shut down their metabolism so that it falls to 0.01% of their usual state. This cyst-like state is called a “tun”, achieved using a ...

Finally, tardigrades are able to form a cyst inside a cuticle to withstand ... The rest of the time they are quite easy to ...