The World’s Toughest Animal
8 years ago in #youtube by theywillkillyou (62)
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The photos are beautiful. These little animals are the perfect candidates to begin to populate other planets ... Can they be used as food by other living beings?
Yes, in fact they're eaten by a wide variety of organisms. Using them to populate planets would be great, but I think that the conditions of most foreign planets' environments would cause them to go into their self-preservation state of cryptobiosis, making it practically impossible to reproduce/populate.
If we can understand and replicate the self-preservation mechanisms of tardigrades, that would lead to breakthroughs in various problems, such as dealing with the side-effects of space travel across massive distances. Also, I found this interesting real life video of tardigrades:
Thanks for sharing! I agree, there's a lot to be learned from mother nature. The hard part--as you said--is replicating it as well as making applicable to humans.
A lot of research is being done on this exsct topic. I had a professor that studied nematodes, C.Elegans, to be exact, and had shown that restricting food sources produced a response in the nematodes similar to the tardigrades. The nematodes mouth and rear would seal shut and the metabolism would drop to near 0. Very interesting stuff. Like you said though, replicating it in humans is the hard part, have to start somewhere though.
That's very interesting, I was under the impression that tardigrades were pretty much the only animals to be able to do such a thing (since I had never heard about this self-preservation process before). Just learned something new, thanks for sharing!
I believe the tardigrades are the best at it that we know of. The nematodes lifespan is never extended like the tardigrades, but can go from a couple of weeks to several months using this process. The amazing thing about the nematodes is that we have already nailed down the specific genes that allow for this process to happen!
Let's get those genes in us asap! Haha
Hahah. Oh how sweet it would be!
Hahahahah that's a good one!
My tardigrade ate my homework
Lol sorry to hear about that ;)
It's ok, it was just math, not important.
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It is very interesting how animals adapted to survive in extreme conditions. We can also see an increase in animal life in the Chernobyl zone after people left from there. And it seems that radiation does not harm them...
That's amazing to hear. What animals in particular were able to thrive in Chernobyl during those post-disaster years?
Wolves, moose, catfish, wild boar and some others
Nature never fails to surprise me!
These things look so fake. If I didn't know better, I'd think it's a made-up cartoon character.
I thought it was fake too at first glance!
OMG this funny creature looks like vacuum cleaner bag :D
Hahahha yeah it's quite an ugly little thing!
Facinating creature!! Looks like a little sumo wrestler.
I know! I think it's so ugly/creepy-looking haha
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Which gen is this pokemon ?
Hahahhahah good one
Amazing nature!!!
it looks like the michilin man meets bioshock
Lol true!