Tardigrades, known as water bears or moss piglets, are tiny, eight-legged creatures that live in small bodies of water in habitatas such as moss across the planet and are renowned for their extreme survival skills.
Tardigrades are the toughest animal on planet earth. They can survive in the vacuum of outer space; withstand temperature ranging from zero to nearly 100°C, cope with pressures six times greater than those at the bottom of the deepest ocean and survive dehydration and being frozen for years on end.
The scientists suggest, means that genes from these "extremophiles", might one day be used to protect living things from radiation - from X-rays, or as a treatment to prevent damage from the Sun's harmful rays.
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