#tardigrades

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'War of the Worlds' in reverse? Mars dirt could help fight off a microbial invasion from Earth

And it looks like the toxicity can be washed out, meaning it may be possible to cleanse Mars dirt for crop-growing duty.

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario that could help protect the Red Planet from contamination by terrestrial bugs. Scientists led by Corien Bakermans, a professor of microbiology at Penn State University, were experimenting with exposing tardigrades, which are microscopic animals nicknamed "water bears" that grow to at most half a millimeter in length, to simulants of Martian regolith.

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today's invertebrate......................tanarctus bubulubus

it is said that this possibly interdimensional punter holds the secret to the origin of life and instructions on how one can attain a higher non corporeal form in its many bubbles

as such it has been the subject of many a debate on very strange subjects, such as whether or not there might be a new kind of purple that we haven't found yet, or if the sun actually has eyes and can see us

but in reality those bubbles store all the fanfics that it has read

glorpiness rating: close enough, welcome back aquilonifer Spinosus

1st illustration is by Stine B. Elle according to the one post I found about it. I found the second illustration on this website, but it doesn't mention who made it or where it's from

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Marine Tardigrades are so goofy lol.

They look like monsters a child would draw and would later come to life and be revealed to not be very scary at all.

And here is Tanarctus Bubulubus drawn by Stine B. Elle, from this paper: https://doi.org/10.1078/0044-5231-00051

I have been doing some research into Stine B Elle because their art is used everywhere but barely ever actually cited, so will update on that

if anyone has any information on Stine B. Elle, I would love to reach out as I love their art!!!!!

(Schill, R.O. ed., (2018). Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades. Zoological Monographs. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95702-9.)

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Goofy ah guys

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let's stare at a microscopic cone with mama