The tardigrade, also know as ‘water bear‘, it never ceases to amaze the science. A recent video records for the first time how this tiny species walks, capable of surviving in the space.
According CNN, a group of experts from the Rockefeller university and Princeton they managed to identify the gait of tardigrades.
The researchers were astonished to process that unlike the animals their size, ‘water bears’ walk like insects which are 500,000 times larger.
Instead of crawling, tardigrades have tiny legs that they even use to to run.
“Tardigrades move in a precise way, they are not clumsy creatures,” he says. Jasmine Nirody, a member of the Rockefeller Center for Physics and Biology Studies, according to information collected by ABC of Spain.
The researcher comments that they carried out several observations on the mobility of the species and discovered that they reach speeds faster without ever changing your patterns basic step.
#Tardigrades are among the smallest animals with legs. Other animals of their size usually just wiggle around, but tardigrades can actually walk. ???????????? pic.twitter.com/V1UQysoCn3
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“The similarities between his locomotive strategy and of insects and arthropods much larger ones open up some very interesting evolutionary questions, ”adds Nirody, one of the study’s authors.
The ‘water bear’ is the toughest and most resistant life form in the world. Land, with a size of 0.5 millimeters and an average life of 60 years, this animal is capable of going 30 years without eating or drink, resist temperatures up to 150 degrees and can live in depths abyssal, in the deep sea.
This curious animal will survive the risk of extinction caused by all kinds of astrophysical catastrophes and will remain on our planet for another 10 billion years, when the scientists they believe that the Sol will become extinct, according to a study by the universities of Oxford and Harvard.
The resistance of the ‘water bear’ to situations plus adverse leads experts to keep the possibility of life beyond our planet.
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