Sporting a bulbous body, deflated head, and eight tiny caterpillar legs, this creature looks like a toddler’s drawing of a Macy’s Day Parade balloon. But the humble, microscopic tardigrade just might ...

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...

As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner Nominate your invertebrate of the year Witek Morek is closely inspecting an old ...

Drawing inspiration from the tardigrade, researchers developed a new strategy that may protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. About 60 percent of all cancer patients in ...

Tardigrades are microscopic invertebrates measuring between 0.2 mm and 1.1 mm in length. They are close relatives of arthropods (spiders, insects, crustaceans), and can live in wide variety of ...