Tardigrade, first animal to survive in space
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Tardigrades (commonly known as waterbears or moss piglets) are small, water-dwelling, segmented animals with eight legs. They form the phylum Tardigrada, part of the superphylum Ecdysozoa. Tardigrades were first described in 1773 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze, who called them…