TARDIGRADE

Well here we are at another Tuesday so that means it is extreme creature day this week it is the Tardigrade whatever that is.

This animal is no bigger than a flea but it is by far the toughest animal on Earth. It can survive temperatures hotter than 150C and colder than -200C. It can go up to 10 years without water and can go six times deeper than the deepest point in the ocean and still survive

Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär.

Tardigrades pose no threat to humans. Scientists have yet to identify a species of tardigrade that spreads disease