Tardigrade
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tardigrade-187-10777665
title:
Tardigrade
text:
Tardigrades, known colloquially 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 called them Kleiner Wasserbär. In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which means "slow steppers". They have been found in diverse regions of Earth's biosphere – mountaintops, the deep sea, tropical rainforests, and the Antarctic. Tardigrades are among the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Phylum of microscopic animals, also known as water bears
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
date created:
2002-03-06T22:10:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T13:02:14Z
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13
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