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Whats The Toughest Animal On The Planet?

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Whats The Toughest Animal On The Planet? You might be tempted to say polar bear or tiger, maybe shark
or, if youre a chav, you might well say its you thats the hardest critter in the world. Whichever of those you
went for, youre wrong. Double wrong with errors on top. Its actually a little creature called the Tardigrade,
more commonly known as the water bear.
These friggers are just amillimeterlong or so, mostly see through, and according to scientists they dont
really appear to be related to any other animals left alive today. They look pretty much like gummy bears
with claws and are found all over the world, from the oceans to the deserts and from the poles to my
beard.

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So what makes them so hard? Well, they can survive at 151 degreesCelsius. Thats hotter than the inside of
a McDonalds apple pie. And they can spend days at -272 degreesCelsius, which is colder than your toilet
seat at 4am, if you canbelievesuch a thing.
OK, so thats temperature, how about pressure? These intrepid little bleeders have been squished under
6,000 atmospheres which is more pressure than the deepest part of the deepest ocean. Theyre also not at
all bothered about being dried out almost completely and will simply come back alive again oncerehydrated. They dont give a frig at all, they will pop straight back in to motion again even if they havent
moved for 10 years!

And last but not least they are the first creature, ever, to have been exposed to the wild and extreme cold
and vacuum of space. And guess what, they survived that too. I wish I was a Tardigrade. Heres a Vice minifilm about them:
Next:
Bears Fired Out Of Aircraft At Supersonic Speed

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