Sentences with phrase «animals called tardigrades»

Some bacteria, plants and small animals called tardigrades are known to be able to survive in space, so it is possible that such organisms — if present in Earth's upper atmosphere — might collide with fast - moving space dust and withstand a journey to another planet.

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In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

The hardy, microscopic animals also known as moss piglets and technically called tardigrades have scavenged about 17.5 percent of their genes from other creatures.

To pull off this remarkable trick, the animals rely on proteins unique to them, called tardigrade - specific intrinsically disordered proteins (TDPs).