Water Bear - Anhydrobiosis

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Uploaded by on Apr 13, 2009

Water bear, gathered from the wild, responding to desiccation by beginning to form a tun in real time.

(don't worry it just went into suspended animation, it revived just fine an hour or so later)

Collected: Moss samples from Mt. Burdell, Novato, CA
Date: March 28th 2009
Species: (not characterized)

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  • @Grey13Human They actually CAN survive amazingly intense amounts of radiation. They could probably survive a nuke.

  • @Grey13Human He will.

  • Nuke him. See if he can survive that.

  • I love these guys

  • its cute!!!!

  • @kennyroks111 lolwut

  • do they go into tun whenever they want or does it respond only when in danger?

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