Sentences with phrase «water bears survive»

Apparently, water bears survive by entering a state of hibernation called cryptobiosis, where its metabolism slows down to less than 0.01 percent of its normal rate.

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The Tardigrade (also known as the Water Bear) can survive in the most extreme environments, even in outer space!

Genetic analysis of these tiny creatures, better known as water bears, is helping to unlock the mystery of how they can survive desiccation, and may also help to place them on the tree of life.

Tiny invertebrates called «water bears» can survive in the vacuum of space, a European Space Agency experiment has shown.

The travellers are not celebrities, but some of Earth's toughest organisms, including the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans and water bears — tiny invertebrates that can survive extreme temperatures and low Earth orbit.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight - legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a new Oxford University collaboration.

Water bears, or tardigrades, have been recorded surviving the vacuum of space, high doses of radiation and pressure.

The travellers are not celebrities, but some of Earth's toughest organisms, including the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans and water bears — tiny invertebrates that can survive extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space in low - Earth orbit.

Last Mother's Day, Brandy was still living in a cage, surviving on minimal food and water and forced to bear litter after litter of puppies for the pet trade.

Last Mother's Day, Brandy was living in a cage, surviving on minimal food and water and forced to bear litter after litter of puppies for the pet trade.

The adventurer not only rediscovers her sense of purpose in the clip, she also endures a freezing landscape, goes for a deep water swim, comes face - to - face with a bear (and a few enemies), and survives a few explosions.

Attaching themselves to black smokers, the worms have been found to thrive at sustained temperatures of from 45 to 60 °C (113 to 140 °F) and even 105 °C (221 °F) for a short time, [3] making the Pompeii worm the most heat - tolerant complex animal known to science after the tardigrades (or water bears), which are able to survive temperatures over 150 °C.

In terms of waterproofing, the Galaxy S9 is IP68 rated whereas the Pixel 2 makes do with IP67 — in other words the Samsung phone can survive a longer dunk in deeper water, which is something else to bear in mind if you're choosing between these phones.

Sand tiger sharks are fierce even before they're born; in the womb the sharks fight their siblings, consume them for nourishment, and only the strongest of the brood survives to hit the open water.

With water quality from the town bore declining for some years, some local people have looked back to how people survived in days before the bore was drilled.