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[urbpan]

PLEASE POST A TARDIGRADE PICTURE IN THE COMMENTS!

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[ah-champagne.livejournal.com]

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU

that's a good one

[ah-champagne.livejournal.com]

It made me happy because it's so colourful.
Tardigrade's are so funny. I love them and their eight legs.

[elizaeffect.livejournal.com]

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha is this a scene from Sunshine?

[elizaeffect.livejournal.com]

I think it's just photoshopped as an amusing graphic in relation to the TARDIS (Tardigrades in Space) project. It amuses me greatly.

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

omg best project name evr!

[martianmoons.livejournal.com]

I saw on a show on Animal Planet that these amazing creatures can actually survive in space! They have an amazing ability to go into almost a non-living state, almost suspended animation, which was news to me (I hardly know anything about them!). They are survivors for sure.....maybe they came from Mars.... ;D

At any rate, they are very cool creatures indeed! :)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

woooooooooooooooooooo!

And contextually appropriate, too!

[octogirlie.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

[mandy-moon.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking about a new tattoo?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

no, but that would be an EXCELLENT idea for one.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Lookit his scary claws!

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

They are scary! What we need now is a b grade horror flick about giant radioactive tardigrades taking over the planet! Or do we...?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

How about a cool TARDIGRADE SLIDESHOW?

http://tardigrades.bio.unc.edu/pictures/

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

EXTRA CREDIT!

[smallerdemon.livejournal.com]

I like this one because LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't you be?!

[grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com]

[grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com]

Dang. I should have posted this one, instead - it has such a cute little face and claws:

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

never too many tardigrades!

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

neko busaroo!

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[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

Here's a super-girly one:



From the NJ Tardigrade Survey--http://microshaw.raffish.org/tardigrade.html

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

Oh wow and check out the super mouth detail on this one:



They kinda remind me of naked mole rats ^_^

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

YIKES what do they eat with a mouth like that??

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

Kinda reminds me of snails, don't they have those raspy mouth bits? The radula?

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

no, but they do have a buccal stylus and a pharyngeal bulb

[frith]

Tardigrades lurk in the thick undergrowth along forest streams. They are particularly fond of little fluffy bunnies which they stun with short hypersonic squeals and reel in with sticky tendrils shot from an aperature connected to their infraorbital foramen. The best way to locate a tardigrade is to listen for the sound of little bones breaking as it munches contentedly on small woodland creatures.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

Wow! I learn so much from the internet!

[frith]

Damn straight! It's the new Renaissance!

A distant cousin.

[iheartoothecae.livejournal.com]

PANDAGRADE!

Re: A distant cousin.

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

A little known fact is that the water panda bear is not in fact a true water bear; it is in fact a relative of the water raccoon.

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

Cross-section, ftw! ;)

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/775/169233.JPG

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

biograde:



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[drhoz.livejournal.com]

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/775/169233.JPG

Wishes it was a water bear

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

http://www.astrographics.com/GalleryPrintsIndex/GP2107.html