Harbinger Down
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Harbinger Down is a 2015 American independent science-fiction monster horror film written and directed by Alec Gillis and produced by Tom Woodruff Jr., the founders of the special effects company Stud
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Tardigrade
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Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who
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…of Belugas in the Bering Sea. They recover a crashed Soviet spacecraft encased in a block of ice that is apparently virulently infected with mutated tardigrades, and after thawing, they are attacked by the mutated creatures. Funded by fan donations through Kickstarter, the film predominantly features practical…
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Shed cuticle of female tardigrade, containing eggs, each 50μm across
The 2007 FOTON-M3 mission carrying the BIOPAN astrobiology payload (illustrated) exposed tardigrades to vacuum, solar ultraviolet, or both, showing their ability to survive in the space environment.
The first drawing of a tardigrade, by Johann August Ephraim Goeze, 1773